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Birth
1927 (Chicago, Illinois)
Death
1985
Lived/Active
California
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  A painter and printmaker, Gordon Cook became active in the Bay Area
California art scene from the time he was married to abstract
painter Joan Brown in the 1970s. In fact, Brown painted a
portrait of the two of them posed with their dog in the formal garden
of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House.
His early paintings were small
in size, muted in color, and usually depicted single still-life
subjects such as a box, a single flower or a wheel. These works were
both very defined and quite expressive with impasto paint
application.
Before then, his reputation was for printmaking, and after the 1970s,
his focus turned to landscape painting, especially solitary buildings
in the delta area of the Sacramento River. Cook has also painted
floral still lifes, nudes, portraits and cityscapes.
Cook was born in Chicago and attended Illinois Wesleyan University,
earning a B.F.A. in 1950; He also attended the State University of Iowa
in Iowa City.
His work is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
Sources include:
Thomas Albright, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, p. 268
http://wwar.com/masters/c/cook-gordon.html
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