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Jewish Tailor’s Workshop
Ellen Gertrude Cohen
1891
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Ellen Gertrude Cohen was born in Philadelphia into an affluent traditional family who had arrived from England in 1844 and supported her artistic journey. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Académie Royale de Peinture in Paris. Cohen, who exhibited watercolors and portraits in a number of galleries in London and Paris, is most remembered for her graphic contributions, notably in the Strand Magazine, Pall Mall, Pictorial World, Queen, and The Studio. Her A Little Refugee from Russia (1893) was exhibited at the World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. Cohen’s sister, Katherine M. Cohen, was an American sculptor and feminist art activist.
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