Harvest Shelf Still life painting by Merrill Coffin

Merrill Coffin

November 4, 1924-December 24, 2006


Merrill Coffin

Merrill Coffin was born November 4th, 1924 in the city of Jamestown, New York to George and Lillian Anderson Coffin. With no formal artistic education after high school, his talent came to him naturally.

In 3rd grade, a pencil sketch of Washington crossing the Delaware was hung in the principal’s office for the full year. He began art courses in junior high. During his high school years, he helped on the Art Staff for the Annual. With his natural ability and what he learned in that 9th-grade course, he started that summer working at Aburg Sign. After this experience, he majored in art through high school and graduated with an art diploma in 1942 from Jamestown High School.

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The Paintings

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“People like to hang on to our past, to what their grandfathers had, to what their great-grandfathers had… Antiquity is holding people together”

Merrill Coffin

Latest Paintings

  • Gathering the Last Light

    Gathering the Last Light

    There is a quiet dignity in this scene—one that feels almost timeless. Gathering the Last Light captures the rhythm of rural life at harvest’s edge, when the work is steady, communal, and guided as much by instinct as by daylight. In this painting, Merrill Coffin turns his attention to the…

  • Merrill Coffin’s Winter Sentinels: Nature’s Quiet Story

    Merrill Coffin’s Winter Sentinels: Nature’s Quiet Story

    In Winter Sentinels, Merrill Coffin captures a quiet moment of vigilance and survival in a snow-covered woodland. Two game birds stand side by side in the foreground, their bodies angled slightly forward, alert yet calm. Their warm brown plumage contrasts beautifully with the cool whites and grays of the winter…

  • Across the Sugar Stream

    Across the Sugar Stream

    This winter woodland scene by Merrill Coffin captures a quiet, meaningful moment rooted in tradition, family, and the rhythms of rural life. Set beneath a canopy of bare trees dusted with snow, the painting depicts a man dressed in a hunter’s orange coat collecting sap, accompanied by a child who…

Artwork & Print Worth

We receive many requests on how much a piece is worth?

Original paintings vary in price from $100-800.00 depending on subject matter and condition. We do not evaluate the cost of your piece. For prints we’ve seen locally pricing range up to $250.00 for a signed framed print. We sell prints online that are still available that are not signed by the artist but come from the estate for 50.00. Price depends on condition, age, frame, number. Most prints were created in the 1980s. You can find prints in some art shops in town and some original paintings in galleries locally.

Please note as of right now the estate does not have prints for the following paintings: