Eleanor Coen

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Eleanor Coen

Street Carnival
1950
color lithograph
15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches

Eleanor Coen

Boy on Stilts
1956
color lithograph
26 x 20 inches

Eleanor Coen

Pure Anger
1943
color lithograph
16 x 11 1/2 inches

Eleanor Coen

Woman and Boy, Acapulco
n.d.
lithograph
16 x 11 1/2 inches

Eleanor Coen

Untitled (workers)
1943
lithograph
16 x 11 1/2 inches

Eleanor Coen

The Prophets
c. 1965
oil on board
14 x 14 inches

Eleanor Coen

Untitled (Child)
c. 1958
oil on canvas
34 x 26 inches

Eleanor Coen

Bird Ignoring Three Children
c. 1962
oil on board
12 x 15 inches

Eleanor Coen, c. 1945

Ox-Bow, 1946


Clockwise from top left: Frank Vavruska, Dan Lutz, Max Kahn, Eleanor Coen

Max Kahn and Eleanor Coen, 1940s

BIO

b. 1916 – d. 2010

Born in Normal, Illinois, Eleanor Coen is a landscapist of urban and rural subjects with an expressionist style of swift brush strokes, heavy impasto, and intricate overlays of glowing color. Since the ’40s, she has been especially well known for her paintings and prints of children. She was a student and teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied painting there with Boris Anisfeld and lithography with Max Kahn, whom she married.

From 1939 to 1940, she was part of the Federal Art Project in Chicago and in 1942 won a traveling fellowship from the School of the Art Institute to study at the School of Fine Arts in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico.

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