Constance Cochrane was born in the U.S. Navy Yard at Pensacola, Florida in the year 1888 and grew up among a family of Marine Corps and Navy officers. Absorbing her environment at an early age, Constance began painting at the age of six and continued to produce a prolific body of seascapes and landscapes throughout her artistic career. 

Constance yearned for an art education after high school and enrolled in the Philadelphia School of Design for Women where she majored in Illustration.  She gave lectures on history and art appreciation, was chairman for several years in the Delaware County Federation of Women’s Clubs, chairman of the Circulating Picture Club of the Philadelphia Art Alliance, and was an influential member of The Philadelphia Ten.

The artist worked with watercolors and oils and was prolific with both mediums.  She created small and large paintings during her career and is best known for her quiet seascapes and landscapes.  Her summers at “Anchor Ledge” on Monhegan Island, Maine were her most fulfilling as a painter and the artist continued to live and paint there for the remaining years of her life.

The artist died in 1962.