William Haskell Coffin

William Haskell Coffin (October 21, 1878 – May 12, 1941) was an American painter and commercial artist.

He flourished in the early decades of the twentieth century, and his work appeared on the covers of leading magazines in the United States.

[1] When he was young, his family moved to Washington, DC, where he attended the Corcoran School of Art.

After a brief stint back in Charleston, where he painted portraits of society ladies, he went to France in 1902 to complete his training as an artist.

[5] Coffin was being treated for depression in an institution in St. Petersburg, Florida, when he leaped from a third-floor window and died on May 12, 1941.