Maria Wiik, Pocket Books, 2002 Robert Stephan Cohen Robert Stephan Cohen (born January 14, 1939) is an American attorney specializing in divorce cases. He is a senior partner at Cohen Clair Lans Greifer Thorpe & Rottenstreich LLP, a 21-person family law firm in New York City. Early life. Cohen was born on January 14, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York where his father drove a taxi. He was the first member of his family to graduate from college. Cohen received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Alfred University in 1959 when he was 20 years old and worked three jobs to put himself 	Robert Stephan Cohen
11668371	Maria Wiik Maria Wiik Maria Catharina Wiik (3 August 1853 – 19 June 1928) was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits. Biography. Wiik was born in Helsinki. She was the daughter of architect Erik Johan Wik (or Wiik) (1804–1876) and his wife Gustava Fredrika Meyer. She was born and grew up in Brunnsparken and attended the Swedish language school Svenska fruntimmersskolan in Helsingfors. She then studied drawing with art professor Adolf von Becker. Encouraged by her family, she studied art during 1874–1875 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki. In 1875, she continued 	Maria Wiik
11668372	her art studies in Paris under Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian, one of the few private schools accepting women at the time. From 1875 and in 1880 she became a substitute teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts of Helsinki. Her early paintings accepted for the Paris Salon in 1880 were portraits. In 1881, she painted a series of small paintings with a more psychological atmosphere including minute details. In spring 1889, she returned to Paris with her friend, the painter Helene Schjerfbeck to work among others with Puvis de Chavannes. In 1883–1884, they painted in England and 	Maria Wiik
11668373	then in 1889 at St Ives in Cornwall. Her painting Out into the World" won a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900) and was included in the 1905 book "Women Painters of the World" by Walter Shaw Sparrow. Her last trip to Paris took place in 1905. The rest of her life she spent in Helsinki. Her vision deteriorated, and in 1925 she underwent an eye surgery. Wiik died in Helsinki in 1928. Maria Wiik Maria Catharina Wiik (3 August 1853 – 19 June 1928) was a Finnish painter. She worked principally with still life, genre images, landscape paintings and