S Tucker Cooke - Artist Info

About S Tucker Cooke

  • Biography

    S. Tucker Cooke was an American artist and educator who taught at UNC Asheville for over 30 years. He received his MFA from the University of Georgia and B.F.A. from Stetson University. Cooke primarily worked with paint and mixed media, striving to create a balance of supposed opposites in his work. He participated in over 21 solo exhibitions and had his work accepted in over 60 competitive group exhibitions. The Asheville Art Museum hosted a major retrospective of his work in 1976, and his work is in the collection of the Hunter Museum, the Mint Museum, and the Asheville Art Museum. UNC Asheville’s S. Tucker Cooke gallery is named for him, and he received an honorary doctorate degree from UNC Asheville in 2018.

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