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Barbara (Cook) Latham

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Barbara (Cook) Latham (1896 - 1989) was active/lived in New Mexico, Massachusetts.  Barbara Latham is known for Indian genre painting, graphics, illustration.

Painter, print maker, and children's book illustrator, Barbara Latham was born in Walpole, Massachusetts in 1896, and lived most of her life in the Southwest. She was raised in Norwich, Connecticut and studied at the Norwich Free Academy and then attended Pratt Institute from 1915 to her graduation in 1919. She then studied with Andrew Dasburg at the Art Students League summer school in Woodstock, New York.

She spent the early part of her career in New York, where she worked for the Norcross Publishing Company, and did illustrations for Forum magazine and The New York Times Sunday magazine.

In 1925, Latham went to Taos, New Mexico, for the first time to get material for illustrations for a greeting card company. She met artist Howard Cook, who was in the process of developing illustrations for Willa Cather's novel, Death Comes to the Archbishop. The couple married in 1927.  From 1928 to 1935, they traveled widely including to   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5557 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Barbara (Cook) Latham available:    Jozef Bakos,  Ila McAfee,  Willard Ayer Nash,  Howard Norton Cook,  Joseph Fleck,  William Penhallow Henderson,  Bror Nordfeldt,  Helmuth Naumer,  Alfred Gwynne Morang,  Gene Kloss,  William Thomas Lumpkins,  Sheldon Parsons,  Henry Cornelius Balink,  Gerard Curtis Delano,  Emil Bisttram,  Gerald Ira Diamond Cassidy,  Fremont F Ellis,  Ben Turner,  Carl Von Hassler,  Carlos Hall,  Ernest Leonard Blumenschein,  Leon Gaspard,  Ernest Martin Hennings,  Peter Hurd



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Barbara (Cook) Latham


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Children's Book, Juvenile Literature Illustration
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Cowboys
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Indian Figure Prior to 1940
  • Indians, Native American Specialty
  • Indians, Native Americans
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Arizona Before 1945
  • New Mexico Before 1940
  • Taos, New Mexico Before 1940
  • Woodstock, New York
Art Association
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Jim and Virginia Moffett Collection
Added Description
  • Genre Specialty
  • Printmaking Specialty
  • Western Subject Specialty
Artist Colony
  • Taos Art Colony
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Weyhe Gallery, New York City
  • Whitney Studio Club, Later Whitney Museum of American Art
Art Movement
  • Taos Moderms
Exhibition of Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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