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arts department of the ever done. One is “Self
St. Petersburg Junior Portrait”, simple, direct,
College. Mr. Dodd is hurriedly done. One of
showing in the member’s the hardest subjects
group six oil paintings an artist undertakes.
and nine watercolors. In it Mark has caught
Among the oils, two something of himself
pictures in the opinion that we all know…”
of this reviewer stand
out as the best painting Mark Dixon Dodd
Tempera, 13½ x 16½ inches.
this versatile artist has
Theodore Coe was, a retrospective of
in his time, a well- Coe’s work. Lee
known American Malone, director of
im pr essionis t, the Museum, said of
today he is almost Coe: ”The rediscovery
forgotten. A friend of Theodore Coe as a
of the American genuine American
impressionist John impressionist--one
Henry Twachtman, of that small early
Coe exhibited widely band who wer e
in Bos t on, N ew much admired by
York and Florida, their peers but never
spending his quite successful with
summers on Cape the public brings the
Cod and winters reward of belated
in Tampa. In satisfaction….
1926 he moved Theodore Coe, Tampa, Self Portrait, 1924. It was, in fact,
permanently to a Oil on canvas, 18 x 23 inches. in the middle
studio in Tampa. nineteen thirties
In 1934 Coe was that I had first
working as an artist for the WPA, visited his Tampa studio to see them.
and in 1937 he restored a portrait In these vivid landscapes, especially
of Colonel John Williams, co-founder the tropical scenes of Florida, Coe
of the city of St. Petersburg, and challenges the usual limitations
presented it to the city. of the thick oil medium with an
In 1957 the Museum of Fine immediacy more like the brilliance
Arts in St. Petersburg presented and dash of watercolor.”

Catherine Stockwell was perhaps Florida’s most prolific
impressionist artist. Born Catherine Haynes in DeLand in
1895, her father, a DeLand pioneer, had a grocery store
on Woodland Boulevard. She attended Stetson University
for seven years studying art under landscape artist,
and first professor of art at Stetson, Harry Davis Fluhart.

Catherine Stockwell, DeLand. Self-portrait, Me, circa 1910.
Oil on canvas, 11½ x 15½ inches.
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