While the landscape paintings of James Cook are in the tradition of the country's earliest American landscape painters, they are not duplicates of those earlier works. Cook's art is uniquely his own... Read full biography
While the landscape paintings of James Cook are in the tradition of the country's earliest American landscape painters, they are not duplicates of those earlier works. Cook's art is uniquely his own and represents the world today. His art is the result of years of hard work, of intimately knowing... Read full biography
While the landscape paintings of James Cook are in the tradition of the country's earliest American landscape painters, they are not duplicates of those earlier works. Cook's art is uniquely his own and represents the world today. His art is the result of years of hard work, of intimately knowing the landscape, and depicting it with a passion. James Cook is a painter absorbed with the process of painting. He paints quickly and creates richly colored, highly textured surfaces. While his work is... Read full biography
While the landscape paintings of James Cook are in the tradition of the country's earliest American landscape painters, they are not duplicates of those earlier works. Cook's art is uniquely his own and represents the world today. His art is the result of years of hard work, of intimately knowing the landscape, and depicting it with a passion. James Cook is a painter absorbed with the process of painting. He paints quickly and creates richly colored, highly textured surfaces. While his work is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists, it differs from them in that it projects a recognizable reality, dictated by his personal vision and technical skills. His paintings are bold and monumental in scope. Whether he depicts the ripples upon the... Read full biography
While the landscape paintings of James Cook are in the tradition of the country's earliest American landscape painters, they are not duplicates of those earlier works. Cook's art is uniquely his own and represents the world today. His art is the result of years of hard work, of intimately knowing the landscape, and depicting it with a passion. James Cook is a painter absorbed with the process of painting. He paints quickly and creates richly colored, highly textured surfaces. While his work is reminiscent of the Abstract Expressionists, it differs from them in that it projects a recognizable reality, dictated by his personal vision and technical skills. His paintings are bold and monumental in scope. Whether he depicts the ripples upon the surface of still pools in mountain streams or the color studies of a stormy sky, the artist's use of... Read full biography
James Pringle Cook - Artist Info
About James Pringle Cook: Books
Books & Publications (7)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society (Exhibition catalog)
2009
Julie Sasse, Chief Curator and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art
208 pages (color)
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2007
Julie Sasse
165 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Faces of Arizona A Tribute to Arizona Artists and Patrons
1999
Sarda, Michel F
207 pages
Plain Pictures Images of the American Prairie (Exhibition catalog)