Henry Ives Cobb, Jr.

Henry Ives Cobb Jr. (March 24, 1883 – August 1974) was an American artist and architect who lived and worked in New York, New York. He is known primarily for his paintings of scenes in and around Manhattan, especially Central Park. He was a member of the American Institute of Architects and the Art Students League of New York, as well as the Society of Independent Artists and the Royal Academy. Early life Cobb was born in Illinois, and was the first of ten children of architect Henry Ives Cobb and Emma Martin Smith. In 1904, Cobb graduated cum laude from Harvard University, with honorable mention in the fine arts, and in August of that year he went to Paris to study architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1908, Cobb joined his father's architecture firm at 42 Broadway, New York, New York. His daughter Margaret Baron Cobb was born the same year. Career In June 1914, Cobb left his father's firm, his wife, and his two young children, to enroll at the Royal Academy of Munich, where he studied under Carl von Marr and historicist Gabriel von Hackl. Despite having worked as an architect for seven years, he identified himself as a "painter" on his passport application.