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Eleanor Coen is a Lithographer and Painter born in 1916 in Normal, Illinois . Both a student and teacher at the Art Institute Of Chicago , Coen studied there with Boris Anisfeld , Francis Chapin and Max Kahn . She married Kahn in 1942. Her works often depicted urban landscapes in a signature figurative Expressionist style. From 1939 to 1940 , Coen participated in the Depression-era Federal Art Project in Chicago , where she worked alongside with Santiago Martinez Delgado . In 1941 Eleanor won the James Nelson Raymond Traveling Fellowship, a $2000 first prize (for students with the best work). She was the first woman to win that prize. People who won usually went to Europe but because of the war Max and Eleanor decided to go to Mexico. They went to San Miguel de Allende where Max set up a litho studio and taught lithography at the School of Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. While there Eleanor painted a large mural which still graces a wall in the school courtyard. The mural and school are national monuments. A good friend Alfredo Zalce, was also doing a mural there at the same time. After the war started they came back to chicago where she has had a long and successful career. Eleanor has been called the best painter in Chicago of the 40 & 50's era. She has won numerous prizes and now shows at the Corbett vs. Dempsey gallery in Chicago. Coen's work is displayed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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