Imponderable Joys: The Work of Austin Cooper
(Exhibition catalog)
1993Ray, Timothy
36 pages (color)
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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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Imponderable Joys: The Work of Austin Cooper
1993The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
1992Livingston, Alan; Isabella Livingston215 pagesArt for the London Underground: London Transport Posters 1908 to the Present
1990Green, Oliver144 pagesCollage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh342 pagesThe Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture
1964Chamot, Mary; Dennis Farr, Martin Butlin811 pages (color)The Art of Assemblage
1961
(Exhibition catalog)Seitz, William C176 pages (color)Trajects-Paintings by Austin Cooper
1959
(Exhibition catalog)Read, Sir Herbert8 pages (color)Making a Poster
1938Cooper, Austin96 pages (color)