Artist

Janet de Coux

born Niles, MI 1904-died 1999
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Janet de Coux, © Peter A. Juley & Son Collection, Smithsonian American Art Museum J0119949
Born
Niles, Michigan, United States
Active in
  • Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nationalities
  • American
Biography

Janet de Coux trained with Carol Paul Jennewein in Philadelphia, James Earle Fraser in Connecticut, and Gozo Kawamura in New York, then opened her own studio in 1936. De Coux also worked as a sculpture instructor at the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1942 to 1945. Her 1963 sculpture of William Penn stands in Memorial Hall of the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.