John Earle Coolidge - Boats in the LA Harbor 1935 - Oil painting oil painting on board -Signed frame size 21 x 25" board size 16x20" Biography (1882 - 1947) John Earle Coolidge was active/lived in California. John Coolidge is known for landscape, illustrator Born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, John Coolidge became a landscape painter and illustrator. He studied art at Stanford University in 1905 and then studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and with William Merritt Chase, Cecilia Beaux, Thomas Anshutz, and J. Francis Smith. In 1909, Coolidge moved to Los Angeles and worked as a commercial artist and instructor at the Otis Art Institute. He was a member of the California Art Club and the Laguna Beach Art Association.