Frederick Coffay Yohn

F. C. Yohn
Yohn in 1898
Born	Frederick Coffay Yohn February 8, 1875 Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Died	June 3, 1933 (aged 58) Norwalk, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Known for	Illustration

Frederick Coffay Yohn (February 8, 1875 – June 6, 1933), often recognized only by his initials, F. C. Yohn, was an artist and magazine illustrator.

Background

Yohn's work appeared in publications including Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. Books he illustrated included Jack London's A Daughter of the Snows, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Dawn of a To-morrow and Henry Cabot Lodge's Story of the American Revolution. He studied at the Indianapolis Art School during his first student year and then studied at the Art Students League of New York under Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858-1928). Mowbray studied at the Atelier of Léon Bonnat in Paris. Yohn often specialized in historical military themes, especially of the American Revolution, as well as the First World War. He designed the 2 cent US Postal Service stamp in 1929 to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of George Rogers Clark's Victory over the British at Sackville. He is best known for his painting of George Washington at Valley Forge.^[1]

Gallery

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  Alice of Old Vincennes (1900)
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  Herkimer at the Battle of Oriskany (c. 1901)
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  You Can't Do That! Scribner's Magazine story illustration (August 1914) Oil on canvas 34.25, inch. x 24.25 inch
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  The Fall of Fort Sackville (1923)
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  US Postage Stamp (1929); commemorating George Rogers Clark in the Battle of Vincennes, February 23, 1779
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  Illustration of A.J. Raffles and Bunny Manders from the E.W. Hornung short story "A Jubilee Present", 1907
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  Illustration of A.J. Raffles and Bunny Manders from the E.W. Hornung short story "No Sinecure", 1907

References

• Dye, Charity (1917). Some torch bearers in Indiana. Indianapolis: Hollenbeck Press.
• Bodenhammer, David J.; Barrows, Robert Graham (1994). Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-31222-8.

1. "Academic Nudes of the 20th Century". Blogspot.com. Retrieved 2012-01-28.

External links

Media related to Frederick Coffay Yohn at Wikimedia Commons

• Works by Frederick Coffay Yohn at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Frederick Coffay Yohn at Internet Archive
• Photograph of Yohn (from Smithsonian collections)