Rosalie M. Carey

Ridgewood. watercolor. 13"w x 17"h.

SAC 1977.2.015 -
Spartanburg Art Club / Spartanburg Co. Library

Frank Austin Coleman
Woodruff, Spartanburg - b.1921 d.1994

FRANK COLEMAN was a graduate of the University of Kentucky, and in 1953 held a Fellowship in Art and Archeology from the Mexican Government.

 

Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Marie Daniel Coleman. oil on canvas. 20"w x 24"h.

When Marie Coleman agreed to sit for this portrait, what she had in mind was markedly different from what her son had in mind. As a proper woman of Scots-Irish descent, Mrs. Coleman would never have gone out in public dressed in the everyday clothes that she wearing in this portrait. Frank however, wanting to capture the “real” woman he saw as his mother, would not even allow her the courtesy of a string of pearls. Perhaps this explains the stern and uncomfortable look on the sitter’s face.

SMA 2004 - Gift of Martin E. Meek

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
[ Spartanburg County Museum of Art exhibition ] [ August & Irma Cook: A Legacy of Art ]

August Cook
Spartanburg - b. 1897 Philadelphia d. 1991

Cook attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. In 1924, he became head of the Art Department at Converse College and established an Art major. He served in this capacity for 42 years before retiring to his studio in Chesnee,SC in 1966. Cook's wife, Irma, was also an accomplished artist and teacher, and a charter member of The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg.

 

Pearl. oil on canvas.

SCAA 1985.3

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[ Spartanburg County Museum of Art exhibition ] [ August & Irma Cook: A Legacy of Art ]

August Cook

Still Life in White. oil on panel. 12"h x 14.5"w.

SMA 2004 - Gift of Elizabeth Cleveland Welch

August Cook

The Mouse. Woodcut

SCAA 1985 .4

August Cook

Abandoned School. woodcut.

SCAA 1985.8

August Cook

Dying Sugarbush. woodcut.

SCAA 1985.2

August Cook

Cardinal. woodcut.

SCAA 1985.6

Josephine Sibley Couper
( known outside of art cirlces as Mrs. B. King Couper)

Spartanburg / Tryon, NC / Montreat, NC / Augusta, GA / Gloucester, MA - b.1867 d.1957

Along with Margaret Law, Couper was one of the original founders of The Spartanburg Arts & Crafts Club in 1907. Both artists were members of the Artist Colony which worked in Tryon, NC. from 1892 to 1942.

 

Gloucester Fisherman. (Also Called Mending the Nets.) 1925. oil on canvas.

This piece has the same provenance as The Jug Vendor.

According to correspondence from King Couper in 1984, the subject of this painting operated a tourist boat concession at the Rocky Neck Artists’ Colony in Gloucester, Mass. and was reputed to have been a Civil War veteran. If this is true, and if he sat for the painting in 1925, he would have been 70-80 years old at the time.

King recalled that he and John Adger Law, Jr. would drive his mother up to Gloucester in an open Model T Ford after school closed for the summer.

SAC 1977.2.02

Josephine Sibley Couper

The Jug Vendor. circa 1910, Spartanburg. oil on canvas.

This piece, also known as The Girl with the Jugs and Girl with Amphora, was originally in the collection of the old Kennedy Library in Spartanburg. It was accessioned into the Spartanburg Art Club's Collection in 1953 and accessioned to The Arts Council of Spartanburg in 1977. In 1994, this piece and others, were given to The Spartanburg County Art Association now known as The Spartanburg County Museum of Art.

Correspondence from King Couper in 1984, indicates that the girl in the painting (Mary Lovling) is the daughter of Mrs. Nannie Lovling, who for many years was the nurse for the children of Mr. John A. Law, president of Saxon Mills and Central National Bank in Spartanburg.

NOTES ON BACK

• Title card that says: Spartanburg [?] / Artist Mrs. B.King Couper / Address Spartanburg / Agent Mr. JJ Gillespie & Co.

  SAC 1977.2.3

Josephine Sibley Couper

Portrait of Mrs. W.S. Manning of Spartanburg.
circa 1950, Tryon, N.C. pastel on paper. 13"w x 17.5"H.

When Couper began this lovely portrait, the work extended several inches to the left and included the subject’s hand and a window with a flower pot in it.

Whether she was disatisfied with the composition or had another reason for doing so, Couper cropped the left side of the work before she had completed the piece.

NOTES ON BACK

• Painted about 1950 / Portrait of Mrs.W.S.-Manning /East Main Street /Spartanburg, S.C. / Pastel by J.S.Couper (Mrs. B. King Couper) Rock House Art Gallery / co [corner of?] Pacolet and Chesnut Sts. Tryon N.C.

  SMA 2002.2

Jim Creal
Spartanburg

Born and raised in Spartanburg, Creal studied philosophy at Washington and Lee University (B.A.), geology at the University of Montana (B.A.), and art at the University of Montana (B.F.A).

He worked in Ireland and Scotland for a few years as a mineral exploration geologist. In 1982, he worked on a large exploration drilling program in the South Central Grampian Highlands, and was part of a discovery team that outlined a world class deposit of barite and lead, zinc and silver sulfides.

In 1992, he returned to Spartanburg to set up an art studio. He has served as the Director for Converse College's Milliken Gallery, and teaches in the SC Arts Commission's Arts in Education Program.

In 1999, he started representing the works of some printmaking friends in the state.

 

Marking in the Grid. 1997. Monotype. 29"w x 33"h.

SMA 1997.5

AREA GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
[ Creals Studio & Gallery ] [ Carolina Gallery ] [ ElderArt Gallery ]

ONLINE PORTFOLIOS:
[ Artist Index of Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina ]

Daniel Cromer
Spartanburg

A native of Spartanburg, Cromer attended Art Schools in Nashville, Pittsburgh and New York. He holds an Honors degree from the Art Center School in Los Angeles. He has traveled extensively as a professional artist, painting and exhibiting internationally and lived in Europe for many years. Cromer returned to South Carolina in 1993, making his home in Spartanburg and Beaufort, where he is active as an exhibiting artist.

He has lectured and taught at the Art School of the Spartanburg County Museum of Art and holds regional workshops. He is a "Member with Excellence" in the South Carolina Watercolor Society and served as that organization's Exhibition Chairman for the year 2000. Cromer's work is represented internationally in many private and public collections.

 

Carnegie at Converse. 1998. watercolor.

This painting won the 1999 Burwell Art Competition sponsored by the museum. Prints are available for sale in The Museum Shop.

SMA 1999.1 - 1999 Burwell Art Competition winner.

AREA GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
[ Carolina Gallery ]

ONLINE PORTFOLIOS:
[ Artist Index of Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina ]

 

 

Daniel Cromer

This Way to Harry’s. 1991. watercolor.

This painting won the 2000 Burwell Art Competition sponsored by the museum. Prints are available for sale in The Museum Shop.

SMA 1998.1

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