Category: Publications

  • Palette Talk Issue 51

    Article and Cover of Palette Talk. Ed 51 Painting: Grandma’s Treasure Published by M. Grumbacher, Inc © 1982 by M. Grumbacher, Inc. Download the featured article  Interested in getting your own issue. Check out Etsy to get your own copy.

  • Art Gallery Opens

    The barn had been renovated into an art gallery in the mid to late 1980’s. Roughly 20-25 years ago today.    

  • Art in the Park moved to Mayville

    Another scrapbook piece found with Merrill Coffin’s artwork. The show moved from the Bemus Point Park to Mayville in 2001.

  • Fall Festival Announcement

    Below, is a copy of one of the first fall festival’s at the Audobon Society. The article was among Merrill Coffin’s letters. There was no date on the article

  • Not an Ugly Duckling

    Donald Berns, left, president of Chautauqua County Society of Artists, and Merrill E. “Pete” Coffin, its vice president, check the fine points of a duck carved by Berns, with another of his creations in teh foreground. At right is one of Coffin’s paintings. Thier works will be abmont those offered…

  • Merrill Coffin Obituary

    Merrill E. “Pete” Coffin, 82, of Loyalton of Lakewood, formerly of 1671 Martin Road, died at 11:10 a.m. on Sunday, December 24, 2006, in Loyalton of Lakewood. A native of Jamestown, he was born November 4, 1924, the son of George D. and Lillian Anderson Coffin. He was a 1942…