Margaret Miller Cooper’s favorite subjects were old Connecticut homesteads and farm scenes around her summer home in Lyme, although she also painted in Florida, Hawaii, Jamaica, Nassau, and Nova Scotia. These scenes were rendered in an impressionistic style and with a high keyed palette. She was born in Terryville, Connecticut and graduated from Smith College in 1897. She attended the Art Students League of New York, and the Pratt Institute, and studied with Guy Wiggins (1883-1962), Charles Woodbury (1864-1940), Henry Snell (1858-1943), and Robert Brackman (1898-1980). Cooper was active in the National Association of Women Artists, the Connecticut Academy, the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, the Lyme Art Association, Allied Artists, and the Palm Beach League of Artists.