COFFIN, William Anderson, American painter: b. Allegheny, Pa., 31 Jan. 1855. He was graduated at Yale 1874, studied art in the United States 1874-77, and then in Paris under Leon Bonnat 1877432. He opened a studio in New York 1882, and has become well known as a painter of landscapes and figure pieces. In 1886 he won the Hallgarten pnze of $200; was awarded a medal at the Paris Exposition 1889; received the Webb prize of the Society of Amer ican Artists 1891; and was geld medalist of the Philadelphia Art Club 1898. He was art critic of the New York Evening Post 1886-91, and of the New York Sun 1896-1900. In 1901 he was director of fine' arts at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, N. Y. At the Saint Louis Exposition (1904) he exhibited (Sunrise in Winter' and (Evening, Somerset Valley.' He is member of the Society of Amer ican Artists and of the Architectural Leagrue of New York; he won a silver medal, Charleston Exhibition (1902), and two silver medals at Saint Louis World's Fair (1904); was ap pointed member of New York Advisory Board to the Art Department of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco (1915); appointed by French government (1915) at tache honoraire French commission to Panama Pacific International Exposition (1915); mem ber of honor of the Societe des Artistes Fran cais, Paris; and member of honor of the So ciete Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris; ap pointed chairman (1915) of the American Art ists' Committee of One Hundred in charge of Relief Fund for the Families of French Soldier Artists. Among his best-known pictures are
'The Rain,' in the Metropolitan Museum; (Une academie de peinture moderne' ; (An Examina tion' (time of Louis XIII) ; 'The Close of Day' (1881) • (The Hay-field' (1886) 'Septem ber,' in the 'National College, Washington, D. C.; (A Maple in Blossom,' Municipal Gallery, Venice, Italy; (At Break of Day,' Buffalo Free Arts Academy; (October Morning,' and (A Thunder Shower,' Brooklyn Institute of Art and Sciences.