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Barbara (Cook) Latham

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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Facts about Barbara (Cook) Latham

   Publications  Book References:  37
Magazine References:  6

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6 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Barbara (Cook) Latham
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Women Artists in the Moffett Collection February 2006 North, Cori Sherman Yes
Southwest Art Taos Past & Present October 2003 Indyke, Dottie Yes
American Art Review Taos Artists & Their Patrons August 1999 Campbell, Suzan Yes
Southwest Art War and Peace June 1999 May, Stephen Yes
Southwest Art Enchanted by New Mexico September 1998 Grauer, Michael Yes
American Art Review Independent Spirits: Women Painters December 1995 Trenton, Patricia Yes
37 Book References for Barbara (Cook) Latham
Year Author Title Pages Color
2014 Fahlman, Betsy (Editor) Southwest Art History Conference Abstracts, 1996-2013 217 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950 400 Yes
1998 Bix, Cynthia New Mexico Art of the State 96 Yes
1998 Kovinick, Phil; Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West 405 No
1997 Ellis, Robert M. (Director) Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook 48 Yes
1997 Southwest Art Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art 128 No
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary 612 No
1995 Trenton, Patricia (Editor); Sandra E'Emilio, Erika Doss (et all) Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West 1890-1945
(Exhibition catalog)
304 Yes
1994 Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell Paintings of the Southwest 128 No
1994 Wilson, Raymond L Index of American Water Color Exhibitions 1900-1945 776 Yes
1992 Museum of Fine Arts Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection 167 Yes
1991 Adams, Clinton Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990 167 Yes
1990 Axelrod, Alan Art of the Golden West 418 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1986 Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe 218 Yes
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 851 No
1984 Broder, Patricia Janis The American West The Modern Vision 345 Yes
1984 Witt, David L The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary 63 No
1980 Nelson, Mary Carroll The Legendary Artists of Taos 176 Yes
1976 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition 756 No
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 School of American Research Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico
(Exhibition catalog)
41 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1974 New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts 192 Yes
1973 Collins, Jim L. Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present 426 No
1963 Coke, Van Deren Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942 168 Yes
1961 Mahony, Bertha E (others) Illustrators of Children's Books 1744-1945 527 No
1947 Luhan, Mabel Dodge Taos and Its Artists 168 No
1940 Hall, W. S. Eyes on America United States as Seen by Her Artists 150 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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