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Guide to the Cynthia F. Cooley Papers 1967-2010
Metadata Details
- Title
- Cynthia F. Cooley papers, 1967-2010
- Subject
- Cooley, Cynthia F, 1933-, Artists--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh, Art--Exhibitions--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
- Description
- The Cynthia F. Cooley papers include correspondence, exhibition programs, gallery opening announcements, periodicals, publications, slides, prints of St. Barnabas Nursing Home, and photographs of her illustration that appeared on a dinosaur sculpture, Troyus Hillosaurus., Cynthia F. Cooley papers, 1967-2010, MSS 600, Thomas and Katherine Detre Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center., Cynthia F. Cooley gift 1997 1997.0078 Papers, Cynthia F. Cooley gift 2003 2003.0115 Papers, Cynthia F. Cooley gift 2010 2010.0166 Papers, Cynthia F. Cooley was born in 1933 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She attended Lawrence University, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and majored in art. She went on to attend Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Boston Museum of Fine Arts School. Cooley has produced over 1800 paintings, many of which focus on different aspects of Pittsburgh, including steel mills, cityscapes, bridges, and life on the rivers. Her works have been the subject of over forty individual and over fifty group exhibitions. Her work is included in over ninety public and corporate collections, most notably the collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Library of Congress in Washington, DC. She has received numerous awards and honors for her work, including the 1989 Pittsburgh Artist of the Year and the 1998 Master Artist of Pittsburgh. Cooley is a life member of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Watercolor Society, and a charter member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists., Gift of Cynthia Cooley., Processed MSS 0600 02/2012 R. Kovacs, Finding aid available.
- Contributor
- Cooley, Cynthia F., 1933-, Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center (depositor)
- Date
- 1967-2010
- Type
- Collection, Text
- Format
- print, manuscript, .50 linear ft.
- Identifier
- oclc:806528969, pitt:US-QQS-mss600
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=hswpead;cc=hswpead;rgn=main;view=text;didno=US-QQS-mss600
- Coverage
- Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh
- Rights
- Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use., http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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