Born in
Lynn,
Massachusetts, Coolidge studied at the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston under
Edmund Charles Tarbell and
Frank Weston Benson before traveling to France, where in 1904 she had lessons with one Bourgois, of whom nothing further is known. She also studied in
Munich, in 1907, likely with the artist
Hermann Grüber. In 1913 she held a solo exhibition at the
Copley Gallery in Boston; in 1914 several of her works were accepted for the
Paris Salon. Other venues at which she showed work include the
National Academy of Design, the
Art Institute of Chicago, and the
Panama–Pacific International Exposition. In 1916 her painting
The Green Coat, currently in the collection of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, won the Dr. Bolling Lee Prize from the Art Association of Newport. Coolidge was a member of numerous artistic societies in the United States and France. Late in the 1910s she moved to New York City from Boston, and in 1930 began a new career as a bibliographer. She joined the women book collectors' club
Hroswitha Club in 1944, and her collection of
Maria Edgeworth was donated to
Beinecke Library at
Yale University. In 1933 she married Marshall Perry Slade, who manufactured woolen products. ==References==