Pennsylvania Impressionist Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge

Fern Coppedge attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League in NYC, and also studied with Vincent DuMond, William Merritt Chase, John Carlson, Daniel Garber, and Henry Snell. She was associated with the New Hope school of Pennsylvania Impressionists, the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and the "Group of Ten" -- an association of women artists that showed their work first in Philadelphia, and later, all over the country.  

Often compared to the Fauves and the Post-Impressionists of Europe, Coppedge led an unconventional life. She was famous for her love of plein air painting -- it was common to see Coppedge trudging through deep snow to her next painting location -- wearing a big black bearskin coat with canvas and easel in hand.

Jane Piper: Still Life Paintings

Jane Piper 

Jane Piper 

Jane Piper 

Jane Piper 

Still life and landscape painter Jane Piper was born in Philadelphia in 1917.

She first became aware of her interest in art at the age of nine, while in France. Upon returning to the United States, she began taking painting lessons. She was influenced by an exhibition of work by Hugh Breckenridge and later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Daniel Garber. Piper also studied with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown in 1941, with Earl Horter and Arthur Carles, and at the Barnes Foundation.

She taught painting and drawing at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the mid-1950s and at the Philadelphia College of Art from 1956 to 1985.