Biografie von Reginald Cleveland COXE (1855-1927)

Birth place: Baltimore, MD

Addresses: Seattle, WA (1920s)

Profession: Marine painter, etcher, writer, teacher

Studied: with Lars Sellstedt; Hamilton Hamilton; NAD, 1876; Léon Bonn‚t, Gérome, in Paris, 1879.

Exhibited: NAD, 1885-1888; NY Etching Cl., 1887; Parrish AM, 1984 ("Painter-Etchers" exh.)

Member: NY Etching Cl., 1887; Buffalo SA (pres., 1901-02)

Comments: His family moved to Buffalo when he was a boy, where he studied with the marine painter, Lars Sellstedt (see entry). Coxe became known for his paintings and etchings of atmospheric harbor views (often of Gloucester), late 1880s. Position: dir., Seattle School of Industr. and Comm. Arts, 1921.

Sources: WW24; American Painter-Etcher Movement p.23