This May the Edams Museum received a very beautiful portrait of a woman, drawn by Jac J. Koeman (1889-1978), purchased in a thrift store, from archaeologist Sander Gerritsen!
Although Koeman, who was born in Edam in 1889, worked in his hometown between 1920 and 1925 as a watercolorist, painter, draftsman, bookbinder, etcher, lithographer, and drawing teacher, nothing by this artist was present in the Edams Museum – until this donation!
Jac. Koeman, a reclusive man in later life, was famous in his time for his drawings for the famous Verkade Albums. The donation is now on display at the Edams Museum in the exhibition ‘From a Live Model’, in the Coopmanshuys, Damplein 8.
