Colin Campbell Cooper , Jr. , ( 1856 - 1937 ) would have celebrate his 153rd birthday this retiring Sunday . The American impressionist was key out by a critic as " understand[ing ] the beauty of the city as reflective of the smell of the years . “
1.On April 15 , 1912 , Colin Campbell Cooper and his wife Emma were passengers on theRMS Carpathiawhen the transatlantic rider steamship get on the conniption of theRMS Titaniccrash . Cooper and Emma assisted in the deliverance of survivors . Later , Cooper paint several panorama of the rescue .
2.Cooper was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1912 , but not without some challenges first . Cooper had originally been appoint in 1907 , butwas one of the 33 out of 36 nominees who were rejected . The 92 percent rejection charge per unit trigger a feud in the academy between the progressives and the conservatives , which finally run to Robert Henri and other progressives leaving the " staid academy" to hold their own exhibitions .
3.The New York Timeswrote in 1911 that " first and foremost in enthusiasm for the modern New York of today , the metropolis of towering skyscrapers and fevered street traffic , isColin Campbell Cooper , who may be considered the skyscraper artist par excellence of America” ¦ “ Cooper was one of the first painter to use skyscraper as an integral part of his topic matter .
4 . In a dust-covered turning point of the Santa Barbara City Hall basement , several unframed paintings by Cooper were discovered in 1981.Cooper had maintained residence in NYC and Santa Barbara , Calif. , simultaneously for several year while he served as James Dean of the School of Painting at the Santa Barbara Community School of Arts .
5.During the 1930s , Cooper begin writing caper , novels , and illustrated book , as well as an autobiography , In These Old Days . He also founded a Santa Barbara theater , The Strollers , where several of his plays were staged . His plays were also do by local theater companies throughout California .
