Steven Stern Fine Arts · Los Angeles
We buy Colin Campbell Cooper paintings
Do you own a painting by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937), or are you handling an estate that includes one? Steven Stern Fine Arts would be glad to look at it. Inquiries are confidential, and we will explain the choices for selling or consigning before you decide anything.
Wondering what it might be worth? See how Cooper paintings are valued.
Why owners call us
An American Impressionist specialist for your Cooper
Familiar with his work
The gallery has sold Cooper paintings from a Paris-era church interior to a Nantucket street, a New York view and a Santa Barbara mission subject.
Discreet by default
Families and collectors who own a Cooper can write to us in confidence. Owner and buyer names are never made public.
Purchase, consignment or private sale
A Cooper can be bought by the gallery, consigned, or placed privately, depending on what suits the picture and its owner.
The process
How a Colin Campbell Cooper sale works
Send photographs
The front, the whole reverse and the signature, plus any city or building name written on the back.
Confidential review
We consider subject, period, oil or watercolor, size, condition and history.
Choose a route
We set out purchase, consignment and private placement for your Cooper; the decision is yours.
Viewing
For a major Cooper cityscape or a group of works, the gallery can see it in person.
Recent placements
Colin Campbell Cooper paintings we have sold
Church Interior
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
European Castle
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
A Bountiful Crop, The Santa Barbara Mission
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Main Street, Nantucket
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
The Necklace
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
The Old Bridge
Sold by Steven Stern Fine Arts
Who collects Colin Campbell Cooper?
Cooper has two overlapping audiences. Collectors of American Impressionism and of New York painting prize his views of skyscrapers and crowded avenues, the subject that led The New York Times in 1911 to call him "the skyscraper artist par excellence of America." Collectors of California art look for the exposition scenes of 1915 and the gardens, missions and coast he painted after settling in Santa Barbara in 1921.
He also painted European and Asian landmarks, portraits, florals and interiors, in oil and in watercolor. Because his output is so varied, the right way to sell depends on the specific picture. Our past sales page and the biography give more background.