Source: Post-Journal Date Unknown Merrill “Pete” Coffin gave a lecture demonstration on his painting style at a recent meeting of the Chautauqua County Society of Artists. The society said his style is almost photo realistic. Coffin stressed that an artist must know his subject thoroughly before he attempts to portray it on canvas. The artist must research his subject with…
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“People like to hang on to our past, to what their grandfathers had, to what their great-grandfather’s had, ” believes Artist Merrill Coffin. “Antiquity is holding people together” For that reason Coffin has devoted much of the last eight years of his life to painting scenes from America’s past and his paintings are so vivid with color and true to…
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{61 years ago today Grandma Lo was featured in Jamestown’s Own Recipes in the Post Journal.} All these recipes use sour milk or cream, “When you have three children,” explains Mrs. Merrill Coffin, 14 Pershing Avenue, “there’s bound to be milk left over to sour and I’m too Scotch to throw it away.” Consequently, she began to look for ways to use it up and…
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APRIL CHURCH BRIDE AND ATTENDANT — Mrs. Merrill Everett Coffin (left) the former Lois Virginia Collins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John B. Collins, with her maid of honor, Miss Carolyn Nyholm. at the April wedding which took place Sunday afternoon in the Bethel Lutheran Church. A reception followed at Levan’s. Coffin-Collins April Wedding Held Sunday at Bethel Church An April afternoon Church wedding took place…
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This painting was on the cover of a reception invitation at the Prendergast Library in 1990.
Article from March 30, 1940s A Chinese love story in lacquer, enacted on novel bedroom furniture, will be a special exhibit by Union-National Furniture Company at the Jamestown Furniture Exposition next month when 2500 buyers will converge here. The first sets of more than 250, now being made are completed, Alldor M Nord, president to the company, said today. The…
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