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Biography from AskART: Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Augustus Koopman was a painter and etcher of subjects that included the American West. He lived only 45 years and spent most of his short life in Paris where he was a member of an extensive expatriate community. He did much painting at Etaples, along the coast near Belgium where he painted numerous marine and figurative subjects. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later in Paris, and his dry-points and etchings are in the Congressional and New York Public Libraries. He first visited the Grand Canyon in 1913, and his painting "Vision of the Grand Canyon" is in the Santa Fe Railway Collection.