Artist and Illustrator. Coffin was known as "Haskell" and lived but a few years in Charleston before moving to New York City. He studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, and under Paul Laurens of Paris who was considered one of the greatest teachers of art of his time. Haskell won his fame as a magazine illustrator and as a portrait painter of Ziegfeld show girls. Several of his portraits once hung in the office of Florence Zeigfeld and many of his paintings were reproduced and used as covers of the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, McCall's, Pictorial Review, as well as many others. The Saturday Evening Post used his portraits for covers on thirty two editions. He first married Ida Breman who with her had three children. After she died he remarried Frances Starr an actress, and after ten years of marriage she divorced him for non-support. Coffin's related that his avowed purpose was to draw correctly and to combine beautiful coloring with an easy technique. Much of his painting glorified the American girl, particularly the show girl. The St. Petersburg Times noted on April 18, 1932 of the arrival of Haskell Coffin, reporting he was "known the world over for his paintings and portraits". Near the end of his life he suffered from melancholia, a mood disorder and because of this he was hospitalized at St. Anthony's hospital in St. Petersburg. He remained confined from April 17, 1941 until the day of his death when he leaped to his death from his third floor room and was killed. After his funeral services his cremated remains was given to his sons.
Artist and Illustrator. Coffin was known as "Haskell" and lived but a few years in Charleston before moving to New York City. He studied at the Corcoran Art School in Washington, and under Paul Laurens of Paris who was considered one of the greatest teachers of art of his time. Haskell won his fame as a magazine illustrator and as a portrait painter of Ziegfeld show girls. Several of his portraits once hung in the office of Florence Zeigfeld and many of his paintings were reproduced and used as covers of the Saturday Evening Post, Redbook, McCall's, Pictorial Review, as well as many others. The Saturday Evening Post used his portraits for covers on thirty two editions. He first married Ida Breman who with her had three children. After she died he remarried Frances Starr an actress, and after ten years of marriage she divorced him for non-support. Coffin's related that his avowed purpose was to draw correctly and to combine beautiful coloring with an easy technique. Much of his painting glorified the American girl, particularly the show girl. The St. Petersburg Times noted on April 18, 1932 of the arrival of Haskell Coffin, reporting he was "known the world over for his paintings and portraits". Near the end of his life he suffered from melancholia, a mood disorder and because of this he was hospitalized at St. Anthony's hospital in St. Petersburg. He remained confined from April 17, 1941 until the day of his death when he leaped to his death from his third floor room and was killed. After his funeral services his cremated remains was given to his sons.
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