Coarding, Gerald

Gerald Coarding (1911 – 1986) was active/lived in New York, Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey.  Gerald Coarding is known for Abstract painting.

According to the Cook County Chicago census of 1920 and 1930, Gerald D. Coarding was born on June 5, 1911 in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He fought in World War II in Europe and lived afterwards some years in Paris. There he made several important works of art.”  (www.klasema-art.com).   Coarding studied with Hans Hoffman in New York and with Fernand Leger in Paris, and he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.  His work was also exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

In 1955, his address was 11 Bleeker Street, in New York City, according to a label found one the back of his painting, The Minotaur.

David Rockefeller purchased one or two of the panels of a triptych painting by Coarding, The Plainsman, (1956.)