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1890 Souris, Manitoba, Canada - 1964 London, England. Known for: Abstract expressionist painting, collage, printmaking, commercial art, teaching.
Austin Cooper was a painter, commercial artist and educator. He's best known as the creator of avant-garde travel posters for British railway and steamship companies. Born in Souris, Manitoba,... Read full biography
Austin Cooper was a painter, commercial artist and educator. He's best known as the creator of avant-garde travel posters for British railway and steamship companies. Born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, a town about 140 miles west of Winnipeg, he died in London, England, where he appears to have... Read full biography
Austin Cooper was a painter, commercial artist and educator. He's best known as the creator of avant-garde travel posters for British railway and steamship companies. Born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, a town about 140 miles west of Winnipeg, he died in London, England, where he appears to have lived and worked for most of his life. While a child, he moved with his family to Cardiff, Wales (1896) and returned to Canada in the early 1910s. He worked in Montreal as an interior decorator and... Read full biography
Austin Cooper was a painter, commercial artist and educator. He's best known as the creator of avant-garde travel posters for British railway and steamship companies. Born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, a town about 140 miles west of Winnipeg, he died in London, England, where he appears to have lived and worked for most of his life. While a child, he moved with his family to Cardiff, Wales (1896) and returned to Canada in the early 1910s. He worked in Montreal as an interior decorator and commercial artist for a few years before his military service in World War I (1915 - 1919). Some sources note that he resumed work in Montreal, Quebec after the war; however, he was living in London, England by 1922. (1). His mediums included posters,... Read full biography
Austin Cooper was a painter, commercial artist and educator. He's best known as the creator of avant-garde travel posters for British railway and steamship companies. Born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, a town about 140 miles west of Winnipeg, he died in London, England, where he appears to have lived and worked for most of his life. While a child, he moved with his family to Cardiff, Wales (1896) and returned to Canada in the early 1910s. He worked in Montreal as an interior decorator and commercial artist for a few years before his military service in World War I (1915 - 1919). Some sources note that he resumed work in Montreal, Quebec after the war; however, he was living in London, England by 1922. (1). His mediums included posters, lithograph*, collage*, gouache*, mixed mediums and watercolor. Until 1943 he was almost exclusively a commercial artist and... Read full biography
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