[2] Coppedge became well known for her work as a landscape impressionist, painting snow scenes of the villages and farms of Bucks County.

[5] The Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, displayed 50 of the artist's paintings in a retrospective exhibition in 1990 titled "Fern Coppedge: A Forgotten Woman" and published a 48-page catalog.

In 2020–2021, the museum held another solo exhibition of her work, featuring new acquisitions and celebrating the digitization of her scrapbooks.

[1] Her husband, Robert W. Coppedge, a science teacher and botanist, was born in Missouri in 1878 and died in New Hope, Pennsylvania in 1948.

[7] In 2011 a newly discovered landscape painting by Coppedge, entitled October, was sold at auction for $29,800.