Paul Rodda Cook, 1897-1972, a muralist, and painter of portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, was born in Salinas, Kansas. His family moved to Uvalde, Texas when he was 7 years old. It took some time... Read full biography
Paul Rodda Cook, 1897-1972, a muralist, and painter of portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, was born in Salinas, Kansas. His family moved to Uvalde, Texas when he was 7 years old. It took some time for Cook to realize that he wanted to be an artist. He first studied law at the University of... Read full biography
Paul Rodda Cook, 1897-1972, a muralist, and painter of portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, was born in Salinas, Kansas. His family moved to Uvalde, Texas when he was 7 years old. It took some time for Cook to realize that he wanted to be an artist. He first studied law at the University of Texas, Austin, leaving school for Massachusetts, where he took a job, obviously marking time, in sales for a tanning company. He was saved by an illness that sent him back to San Antonio, where he began... Read full biography
Paul Rodda Cook, 1897-1972, a muralist, and painter of portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, was born in Salinas, Kansas. His family moved to Uvalde, Texas when he was 7 years old. It took some time for Cook to realize that he wanted to be an artist. He first studied law at the University of Texas, Austin, leaving school for Massachusetts, where he took a job, obviously marking time, in sales for a tanning company. He was saved by an illness that sent him back to San Antonio, where he began his art studies with Hugo David Pohl, then to Taos, New Mexico, with well-known artists Walter Ufer and Leon Gaspard. When Cook began his art studies, he did so with a fixity of purpose, continuing in Boston with Hermann Dudley Murphy, and in... Read full biography
Paul Rodda Cook, 1897-1972, a muralist, and painter of portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, was born in Salinas, Kansas. His family moved to Uvalde, Texas when he was 7 years old. It took some time for Cook to realize that he wanted to be an artist. He first studied law at the University of Texas, Austin, leaving school for Massachusetts, where he took a job, obviously marking time, in sales for a tanning company. He was saved by an illness that sent him back to San Antonio, where he began his art studies with Hugo David Pohl, then to Taos, New Mexico, with well-known artists Walter Ufer and Leon Gaspard. When Cook began his art studies, he did so with a fixity of purpose, continuing in Boston with Hermann Dudley Murphy, and in Woodstock, New York, with Charles Rosen, Lowell Birge Harrison, and Henry Lee McFee. Cook moved to Boerne, Texas, nea... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (14)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
The Eyes of Texas: The Bill and Mary Cheek Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Grauer, Michael R and E. Harvey
44 pages (color)
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945
1999
Grauer, Paula and Michael R.
240 pages (color)
Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream
1998
Reaves, William E Jr
92 pages (color)
Art for History's Sake The Texas Collection of the Witte Museum
1993
Steinfeld, Cecilia; William H. Goetzmann (Intro)
298 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1940-1941, Volume III Contemporary American Artists
1940
Ball, Charlotte (editor)
790 pages
Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)
64 pages
Second National Exhibition of American Art Summer 1937 (Exhibition catalog)
1937
Breckinridge, Mrs. H. (essay)
32 pages
First National Exhibition of American Art (Exhibition catalog)