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who introduced him to the firm of Notman and Fraser for advice on Coburn's art education. It suggested the
Council of Arts and Manufactures School in Montreal where he studied briefly before moving on to the Carl Hecker School of Art in New York, the Royal Academy in Berlin (1890), study with
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Eastern Townships which were dark in tone. In 1913, he returned to live in Canada after years spent living in Antwerp. In 1914, sketching trips with
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and other dances. Coburn also learned how to dance, and together with
Carlotta and her dance partner, Alvarez, he established a dance studio in Montreal. On May 26, 1960, Frederick Simpson Coburn died peacefully in his Melbourne studio at 89 years of age.
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