Foster Meldrum Coffin Portrait
- Title:
- Foster Meldrum Coffin Portrait
- Collection:
- Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia
- Creator:
- Neilson, Raymond Perry Rodgers (American painter, 1881-1964)
- Donor:
- Thompkins, Alva
- Date:
- 1956
- Acquisition Date:
- 1956
- Location:
- Willard Straight Hall, Browsing Library, Cornell University
- Country:
- United States
- ID Number:
- artsdb_1811
- Accession Number:
- W84-20.1
- File Name:
- artsdb_1811.jpg
- Culture:
- American
- Work Type:
- portraits
- Materials/Techniques:
- Oil
- Subject:
- Coffin, Foster Meldrum, 1890-1979
- Image View Type:
- General
- Image View Description:
- Front View
- Description:
- Cornell 1912. First director of Willard Straight Hall, 1925-1958. Portrait, oil, artist P. R. Neilson. Presented to Willard Straight Hall by Alva Thompkins, Cornell 1924, in 1956. Browsing Library, Willard Straight Hall.
RPR Neilson was born and grew up in New York state. He studied with Wm Merritt Chase and at the Art Students' League with George Bridgeman and George Bellows. He also studied in Paris and became a very well-known portraitist. A more extensive biography may be found in the Frick archives. - Repository:
- Cornell University
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the Campus Artifacts, Art & Memorabilia Collection is protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are Cornell University Library and the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus. This collection was created by Cornell University Library in 2010, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Howard Howland. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact the Cornell Association of Professors Emeritus at cape@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.