including supporting a gymnasium at the Nantucket Athletic Club for children; settlement houses; and the women's suffrage movement. Coffin was a member of the Association of Collegiate Alumni, Vassar Alumni Association and Vassar Student's Aid Association. She was active with the National Child Labor Committee, College Settlements Association, Maria L. Owen Society for the Preservation of Wild Flowers, Nantucket Historical Association and Nantucket Civil League. Coffin was living in her home on Lily Street in Nantucket when she died on June 21, 1930. She was buried in Brooklyn, New York at the Friends Cemetery at Prospect Park. Legacy A retrospective of her work was held at Vassar in 1920 during her 50th class reunion; Taylor Hall exhibited more than 70 of her works. In 2007, The Nantucket Historical Association exhibited Coffin's paintings and loaned a painting for an exhibition entitled "Gutsy Gals: From Hearth to Heavens, Maria Mitchell and Her Sister Nantucketers" by the Egan Maritime Foundation and The Coffin School. The exhibition discusses: Coffin and one of her paintings were mentioned in Beachcombers: A Novel by Nancy Thayer. Gallery References Further reading Margaret Moore Booker. Nantucket Spirit: The Art and Life of Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin. Mill Hill Press; 2001. . Carolyn Kinder Carr; National Museum of American Art (U.S.); National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Revisiting the white city: American art at the 1893 World's Fair. National Portrait Gallery; March 1993. . p. 221. William H. Gerdts. Art across America: two centuries of regional painting, 1710-1920. Abbeville Press; 15 October 1990. . p. 59–60. The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association. Twenty-Ninth Annual Report. 1930. p. 10. The Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association. Annual Report. 1931. p. 10. External links 1848 births 1930 deaths 19th-century American painters 20th-century American painters Art Students League of New York alumni People from Nantucket, Massachusetts American women painters Painters from Massachusetts Painters from New York City Artists from Brooklyn Vassar College alumni Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts alumni Students of Thomas Eakins 20th-century American women artists 19th-century American women artists Friends Seminary alumni