An accomplished artist, very well-listed, and an associate member of the National Academy, Coman was considered one of the major American women landscape painters. She grew up in Waterville, New York where her father had a tannery and shoe factory. Coman was forty when she began painting professionally, studying in NYC then in Europe. While in France, she was influenced by the work of Corot and Daubigny, and began sending Barbizon-style landscapes back to American for exhibition, winning acclaim at the Philadelphia Centennial. On her return to America in the early 1880's she established a NY studio. Beginning in 1887 she worked in the Adirondacks in the summers, in New Jersey, and St. Augustine, Florida, where she had a studio in the same building as Martin Johnson Heade. She exhibited at the Brooklyn Academy of Art, the Paris Salon, the National Academy, the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran, and many more. A gem in pristine original condition.