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1901 Springfield, Massachusetts - 1980 Santa Fe, New Mexico. Known for: Easel and mural painting, graphics.
Considered one of America's best-known print makers including a series of woodcuts of the Grand Canyon in 1927, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator and lecturer who served frequently as guest... Read full biography
Considered one of America's best-known print makers including a series of woodcuts of the Grand Canyon in 1927, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator and lecturer who served frequently as guest professor in numerous universities and art schools. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and... Read full biography
Considered one of America's best-known print makers including a series of woodcuts of the Grand Canyon in 1927, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator and lecturer who served frequently as guest professor in numerous universities and art schools. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and took his formal art training at the Art Students League in New York, beginning 1919 and then traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Orient, and Central America. In 1926, he took his... Read full biography
Considered one of America's best-known print makers including a series of woodcuts of the Grand Canyon in 1927, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator and lecturer who served frequently as guest professor in numerous universities and art schools. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and took his formal art training at the Art Students League in New York, beginning 1919 and then traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Orient, and Central America. In 1926, he took his first trip West and served as an illustrator for "Forum" magazine. He married Barbara Latham, modernist Southwest artist, and also developed a great fascination for the Santa Fe and Taos areas, where he became a resident. In 1937, he won the largest... Read full biography
Considered one of America's best-known print makers including a series of woodcuts of the Grand Canyon in 1927, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator and lecturer who served frequently as guest professor in numerous universities and art schools. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and took his formal art training at the Art Students League in New York, beginning 1919 and then traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Orient, and Central America. In 1926, he took his first trip West and served as an illustrator for "Forum" magazine. He married Barbara Latham, modernist Southwest artist, and also developed a great fascination for the Santa Fe and Taos areas, where he became a resident. In 1937, he won the largest mural commission ever given to a Taos artist when the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture chose him to paint... Read full biography
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Keywords (74)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
Art Media
- •Charcoal
- •Etching, Etcher
- •Fresco Painting, Murals
- •Gouache
- •Ink
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pastel Painting/Drawing
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Tempera
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
- •Wood Block Print
- •Woodblock, Woodcut, Wood Engraving
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Modernist, Modernism (Partially Abstract, Leading Edge)
- •Precisionism
- •Synchromism
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •New York City
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
Art Association
- •American Federation of Arts
- •Art Students League, New York
- •Brooklyn Society of Artists
- •California Watercolor Society
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •Prairie Print Makers
- •Society of American Etchers/Brooklyn Society of Etchers
Art Teacher
- •Frank Vincent DuMond
Art School
- •Art Students League of New York, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Anschutz Collection
- •Bakkom Photo Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota (2)
- •Harmsen Western Art Collection
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
- •Mural Specialty
- •Printmaking Specialty
- •WPA Artist, Federal Art Project, Murals and Easel Paintings
Artist Colony
- •Taos Art Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Frank Rehn Gallery, New York City
- •Grand Central Art Galleries, New York City
- •Weyhe Gallery, New York City
Art Movement
- •Taos Moderms
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Brooklyn Society of Artists-
- •California Watercolor Society-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Brooklyn Museum of Art
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Metropolitan Museum of Art
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts