Margaret Coe

Margaret Coe (born 1941) is an American painter known for her Impressionist art works painted in Oregon. Her paintings are preserved in the Oregon Legislative Assembly's One Percent for Art Collection, at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Crater Lake #2 is on display at the Oregon State Capitol.

Biography Coe, also known as Peg, She is the 8th great granddaughter of Robert Coe, a New England Colonist and public official. When she was 12 years of age, her family moved to Oregon. Laura Ross-Paul is a contemporary of Coe. Clarke was the curator of the University of Oregon Museum of Art for more than twenty years. He died on January 11, 2016.

Paintings

Coe and Clarke were honored with a 6-month retrospective in 2017—2018 by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The curator for the museum said it was a "dream project" for the museum. A book created by the museum to accompany the exhibition, Mark Clarke and Margaret Coe: our lives in paint, is archived at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

Seven of her paintings were acquired by the Oregon Legislative Assembly in the One Percent for Art Collection, the first law in the United States setting aside funds to purchase and preserve artwork by recognized artists in the state. Crater Lake #2 (2010), Coe's interpretation of the landscape of Crater Lake National Park, is hanging in the Oregon State Capitol. Several pieces are in colleges and government buildings around the state.

Awards

Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship Award, 1986 Eugene Arts and Letters Award, 2006 Alfred and Trafford Klots Residency at Rochefort-en-Terre, 2004-2006