CHARLES COINER ANTIQUE PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING VINTAGE 60

Description: VISUALLY STRIKING ANTIQUE PLEIN AIR LANDSCAPE IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS BY REVERED MODERNIST PAINTER AND ART DIRECTOR CHARLES TOUCEY COINER. (American 1898-1989). THIS WORK IS TITLED: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AT WORK. THIS PAINTING DEPICTS A SPRAWLING GOLDEN FIELD DRENCHED WITH TALL SUNLIT GRASSES WITH LARGE BUSHY GREEN TREES AND HILLS PROVIDING A LUSH GREEN BACKDROP WHILE ADDING DEPTH AND CONTRAST TO THE GOLDEN HUES OF THE FIELD. IN THE CENTER THE ARTIST STANDS AT AN EASEL ABSORBED IN PAINTING THE SCENE. THIS IS A CAPTIVATING AND BEAUTIFUL OIL PAINTING WITH AN AIR OF CALM DEDICATION EMANATING FROM THE PAINTER AT WORK WHO IS EMBRACED BY NATURES BEAUTY. SIMPLY AMAZING. SIGNED BY CHARLES COINER IN THE LOWER LEFT HAND CORNER. IT DATES AROUND THE 1960s. EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. PROVENANCE: PRIVATE ESTATE, BEVERLY HILLS CALIFORNIA. DIMENSIONS WITH THE FRAME: 32”H x 42”W DIMENSIONS WITHOUT THE FRAME: 23”H x 33”W Charles Toucey Coiner (1898 - 1989) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, California. Charles Coiner is known for Modernist-leaning landscape, still life, collage. Charles T. Coiner, born in California, traveled and painted throughout Europe, England, Scotland, Ireland, North Africa, South America, Mexico and the Caribbean. At his summer home in Canada, he indulged his two loves, salmon fishing and painting. As Art Director of the N.W. Ayer Agency for 45 years, Coiner pioneered the use of art by distinguished artists to create unique marketing identities for national and international clients. During World War II, he was responsible for the creation of the Civilian Defense signs and many government posters. Coiner was the first American to receive the Art Directors Award of Distinction and was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 1994. Coiner's landscapes are included in the collections of Whitney Museum, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Philadelphia Museum of Art, where he served as trustee for nine years while also the Chairman of Philadelphia College of Art. Charles T. Coiner, (1898-1989) an acclaimed painter and art director for advertising agency A.W. Ayer & Son, is also remembered for addressing the needs of the U.S. government with innovative graphic design. His pioneering efforts to seek out and commission modern artists including Pablo Picasso, Ben Shahn, Edward Steichen, and Miguel Covarrubias, and to introduce their work to advertising resulted in some of the most memorable campaigns of the mid-20th century. As a designer of war posters, civilian defense logos, and the Blue Eagle symbol of the National Recovery Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Coiner’s influence extended well beyond the world of commerce. Coiner, who grew up in Santa Barbara, CA, worked two years as a section hand on the Southern Pacific Railway to pay for his studies in commercial art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After only one year at the Academy, he joined the Chicago office of Erwin and Wasey where he spent six years cutting his teeth in the advertising business. A 40-year association with the Philadelphia-based agency A.W. Ayer & Son began in 1924 when Coiner was hired as a layout designer. He quickly advanced to art director and became vice president in charge of the department in 1936. The campaigns he supervised, such as those for the Container Corporation and DeBeers, were distinguished by their inspired use of fine art and their modern sensibility. During this period he also hired some of the leading graphic designers of the next generation such as Leo Lionni and Alexey Brodovitch. In 1933 Coiner was asked to design a symbol for the National Recovery Administration, the federal agency created to encourage industrial recovery and combat unemployment. His Blue Eagle design, that he sketched on a flight to Washington D.C., was displayed by businesses all across the U.S. and as its much publicized creator, Coiner became something of a household name. In 1949 Coiner was the first to receive the annual award of the National Society of Art Directors for “distinction in the practice of his profession.” Since his retirement from N.W. Ayer in 1963 until his death in 1989, Coiner, whose paintings have been exhibited at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, continued to paint and held several one-man shows in New York. Museums: National Academy of Design Museum (New York City, NY) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives (Philadelphia, PA) The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA) 17 Book References for Charles Coiner YearAuthorTitlePagesColor 2005Alterman, James M.New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony612 2005 Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005479No 2005Davenport, RayDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition2421No 2002Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & YountPennsylvania Impressionism340Yes 1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes3724No 1990Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)1117No 1989Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)538No 1989Fresella-Lee, NancyThe American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art222Yes 1986Jaques Cattell PressWho's Who in American Art-1986 19861292No 1986Opitz, Glenn B (editor)Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers1081No 1985Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947707No 1985Harris, Neil/Martina R NorelliArt, Design and the Modern Corporation (Exhibition catalog)135Yes 1982Opitz, GlennDictionary of American Artists372No 1976Jaques Cattell PressWho's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition756No 1974Baur, John I HWhitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection235Yes 1950Metropolitan Museum of ArtAmerican Painting Today 1950 A National Competitive Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)60No 1935Mallett, Daniel TrowbridgeMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index

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