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WATERCOLOR PAINTING FREDERICK COZZENS,SHIP

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WATERCOLOR FREDERICK COZZENS, 1904, 26 1/2" X 20" Frederick Schiller COZZENS (1846-1928) Birth place: NYC Death place: NYC Addresses: Livingston, Staten Island, NY Profession: Marine painter, illustrator Studied: Rensselaer Polytech Inst., 1864-67 (he did not complete his degree) Exhibited: Brooklyn AA, 1881; Boston AC, 1880s; Penobscot Marine Mus.; Mystic Seaport Mus., 1983 (retrospective). Work: Mystic (CT) Seaport Mus.; Peabody Mus., Salem, MA; Mariners' Mus., Newport News, VA; MIT Mus. and Hist. Collections, Cambridge, MA; New York Yacht Club, NY; Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY; U.S. Coast Guard Acad., New London, CT; Old Dartmouth Hist. Soc. Comments: Listed as a designer" in NYC in 1872, Cozzens became an important marine illustrator for Harper's Weekly, the Daily Graphic, and other magazines. His best known works are a series of very fine chromolithographs of his watercolors, reproduced as a portfolio for J.D.J. Kelley"s, America Yachts: Their Clubs and Races Scribner's (1884). He also illustrated the books Yachts & Yachting Cassell & Co. (1887) and, in a second collaboration with Kelley, Our Navy: Its Growth and Achievements (1897). After 1899, he spent more of his time on private watercolor commissions, painting all types of sea craft, fishermen, and scenes of the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Sources: WW01; Blasdale, Artists of New Bedford, 69-70 (w/repro.)"

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