{{Short description|American painter (1880–1953)}} {{infobox artist |name=Bertha Coolidge |birth_date={{birth year|1880}} |birth_place=[[Lynn, Massachusetts]], U.S. |death_date={{death year and age|1953|1880}} |alma_mater=[[School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts|School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] |occupation=Painter |style=[[Portrait miniature]] |spouse={{marriage|Marshall Perry Slade|1933}} }} '''Bertha Coolidge''' (1880–1953) was an American painter of [[portrait miniature]]s.
==Biography== Born in [[Lynn, Massachusetts|Lynn]], [[Massachusetts]], Coolidge studied at the [[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] under [[Edmund Charles Tarbell]] and [[Frank Weston Benson]] before traveling to France, where in 1904 she had lessons with one Bourgois, of whom nothing further is known. She also studied in [[Munich]], in 1907, likely with the artist [[Hermann Grüber]]. In 1913 she held a solo exhibition at the [[Copley Gallery]] in Boston; in 1914 several of her works were accepted for the [[Paris Salon]]. Other venues at which she showed work include the [[National Academy of Design]], the [[Art Institute of Chicago]], and the [[Panama–Pacific International Exposition]]. In 1916 her painting ''The Green Coat'', currently in the collection of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], won the Dr. Bolling Lee Prize from the Art Association of Newport. Coolidge was a member of numerous artistic societies in the United States and France. Late in the 1910s she moved to New York City from Boston, and in 1930 began a new career as a bibliographer. She joined the women book collectors' club [[Hroswitha Club]] in 1944, and her collection of [[Maria Edgeworth]] was donated to [[Beinecke Library]] at [[Yale University]].<ref name="Slade_FindingAid">{{cite book|title=Series I: Bertha Coolidge Slade Gift, 1791-1940|url=https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/219713|publisher=Beinecke Library (New Haven, Conn.)}}</ref> In 1933 she married Marshall Perry Slade, who manufactured woolen products.<ref name="N.Y.)Barratt2010">{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|authorlink2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author2=Carrie Rebora Barratt|author3=Lori Zabar|title=American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-357-9}}</ref>
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