# Bertha Coolidge

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American painter (1880–1953)

Bertha Coolidge Born 1880 (1880) Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. Died 1953 (aged 72–73) Alma mater School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Occupation Painter Style Portrait miniature Spouse Marshall Perry Slade ​ ​ (m. 1933)​

**Bertha Coolidge** (1880–1953) was an American painter of [portrait miniatures](/source/Portrait_miniature).

## Biography

Born in [Lynn](/source/Lynn%2C_Massachusetts), [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts), Coolidge studied at the [School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston](/source/School_of_the_Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Boston) under [Edmund Charles Tarbell](/source/Edmund_Charles_Tarbell) and [Frank Weston Benson](/source/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](/source/Munich), in 1907, likely with the artist [Hermann Grüber](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hermann_Gr%C3%BCber&action=edit&redlink=1). In 1913 she held a solo exhibition at the [Copley Gallery](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Copley_Gallery&action=edit&redlink=1) in Boston; in 1914 several of her works were accepted for the [Paris Salon](/source/Paris_Salon). Other venues at which she showed work include the [National Academy of Design](/source/National_Academy_of_Design), the [Art Institute of Chicago](/source/Art_Institute_of_Chicago), and the [Panama–Pacific International Exposition](/source/Panama%E2%80%93Pacific_International_Exposition). In 1916 her painting *The Green Coat*, currently in the collection of the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/source/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](/source/Hroswitha_Club) in 1944, and her collection of [Maria Edgeworth](/source/Maria_Edgeworth) was donated to [Beinecke Library](/source/Beinecke_Library) at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University).[1] In 1933 she married Marshall Perry Slade, who manufactured woolen products.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Slade_FindingAid_1-0)** [*Series I: Bertha Coolidge Slade Gift, 1791-1940*](https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/219713). Beinecke Library (New Haven, Conn.).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-N.Y.)Barratt2010_2-0)** Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); [Carrie Rebora Barratt](/source/Carrie_Rebora_Barratt); Lori Zabar (1 January 2010). [*American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art*](https://books.google.com/books?id=YHKoX40qL7EC). Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-58839-357-9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58839-357-9).

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