NANTUCKET SPIRIT: THE ART AND LIFE OF ELIZABETH REBECCA COFFIN
By Margaret Moore Booker
2001 Cloth

This elegantly written and lavishly illustrated volume brings to life an extraordinary Nantucket artist whose story and work is richly deserving of wider recognition. While making her mark in the competitive New York art world, Elizabeth R. Coffin (1850-1930) preserved in her canvases the people, landscapes, and rural lifestyles that were fading from the island. (240 pp / 29 photos / 29 color illus)