With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Josephine Granger Cochrane
Painting/Drawing
1864 – 1953
- Biography/Description of Work
A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Cochrane studied at the Cooper Union in NYC, then in France at the Academie Julian and with George Hitchcock. She traveled extensively abroad, studying also in Great Britain and the Netherlands. A landscape and still life painter, after living in New York and Baltimore, by 1923 she had moved to Enfield where she was born. Her work was exhibited at the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, and she was a member of the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.
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