Broadway

Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937)

1909

Oil on canvas

Sewell C. Biggs bequest; 2004.402

Colin Cooper was born in Philadelphia where he trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts before studying at the Académie Julian in Paris. Cooper gained great popularity for using impressionism to glorify modern architecture, recording the turn-of-the-century invention of skyscrapers and their visual impact on American cities.