Nella Coover

Artist Details

• First Name Nella
• Middle Name Baker
• Maiden Name Coover
• Surname Coover
• Spouse’s Full Name n/a
• Names and Birth Years of Children n/a
• Birth Date January 12, 1869
• Birth Place Wooster, Ohio
• Death Date September 1, 1955
• Death Place Los Angeles, California
• Residence(s) 1903: Harvey, Illinois
  
  1908-1914: Paris, France
  
  1916:  2017 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Illinois
  
  1921: to Laguna Beach, California
• Active In Chicago, Illinois
  
  Paris, France
  
  Laguna Beach, California
• Categories Charcoal, Etcher, Painter
• Training 1890s: student at Académie Delécluse, Paris
  student of Delance, Callot, Waltner
  
• Relevant Travel 1908-1914: several trips to Paris, France
• Subject(s) of Art Array
• Exhibitions History February 1-27, 1898: Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Tiger Lilies
  
  February 3-March 1, 1903: Exhibition of Works by Chicago Artists, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Grandmother’s Lilies
  
  1912 or 1913: “Old Salon” of the Société des Artistes Francais, Paris, France; Studies of Children in the Luxembourg 
  
  March 2-31, 1915: An Exhibition of Etchings, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois [The Chicago Society of Etchers];   Enfant dormant; A Cold Day; Jealousy: Sleeping Infant; Petit Enfant; Lorette; London Bridge is Falling Down; Le Bateau
  
  February 8-March 5, 1916: Twentieth Annual Exhibition. Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Sketch of Lorette
  
  2005: Nature’s Palate: Garden Views, Vistas, and Fantasies, 1880-2005, Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena, California; two floral garden scenes, Collection of Kirk and Linda Edgar
• Publications Dawdy, Doris. Artists of the American West/. Hughes, Edan . Artists in California, 1786-1940. American Art Annual 1898-33; Who's Who in American Art, 1938-1941  
• Biography parents: Alfred G. Coover (1838-1907) and Elizabeth Coover (1840-1898), both buried in Wooster, Ohio