Katherine M. Cohen

Katherine Myrtilla Cohen was an American sculptor.

Biography

Cohen was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 18, 1859, to Henry Cohen, originally from London, and Matilda Cohen, originally from Liverpool.
She received elite-level training in art, studying first at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under painter Thomas Eakins, and later working at the Art [Students League] in New York City as an assistant in the studio of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. She opened her own studio in Philadelphia in 1884. Three years later, she began working for sculptors Denys Puech and Marius Jean [Antonin Mercié] in Paris, where she was elected an honorary member of the American [Art Association].
Cohen exhibited a work, Bust of Harry Souther at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois in 1893.
Cohen died at her home in Philadelphia on December 14, 1914.