William Haskell Coffin

William Haskell Coffin (October 21, 1878 – May 12, 1941) was a painter and commercial artiste who flourished in the yet to be decades of the twentieth century. His decree appeared on the lid of leading magazines in the United States and upon posters that the US meting out commissioned.

Coffin was born in Charleston, South Carolina, on October 21, 1878, the son of Julia (Haskell) and George Mathewes Coffin. When he was young, his relations moved to Washington, D.C, where he attended the Corcoran School of Art. After a brief stint assist in Charleston, where he painted portraits of action ladies, he went to France in 1902 to complete his training as an artist.

Coffin specialized in images of women, which were reproduced upon the covers of popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, The American Magazine, Redbook, McCall's, Leslie's Illustrated, and the Pictorial Review. He was one of the most extremely paid illustrators of his era.

Coffin was married twice. His second wife was actress Frances Starr; they eventually divorced.

Coffin was bodily treated for depression in an institution in St. Petersburg, Florida afterward he leaped from an third-story window and died upon May 12, 1941.