1. Margaret Coen was an Australian artist, known for her watercolours, paintings of flowers, landscapes and still life works.
11 Facts About Margaret Coen
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Margaret Agnes Coen was born in Yass, NSW on 4 April 1909.
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Margaret Coen attended Kincoppal Convent in Elizabeth Bay where she studied drawing with Antonio Dattilo-Rubbo.
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Margaret Coen began working with watercolor and in 1934 she exhibited her work with the Australian Watercolor Institute.
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Margaret Coen continued painting and exhibiting until a year or so before her death.
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Margaret Coen's papers are in the manuscript collection at the State Library of NSW.
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Margaret Coen was made an Honorary Life Member of the Australian Watercolor Institute.
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Margaret Coen won the Pring Prize in 1968 for Dry Summer.
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Margaret Coen married Australian poet Douglas Stewart on 5 December 1945 at the Church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart in Randwick.
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Stewart mentioned Margaret Coen's painting of magnolias in his poem "The Pictures".
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Margaret Coen suffered from Parkinson's disease, and died on 27 August 1993 at St Ives.