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Gordon Cook (1927 - 1985) was active/lived in California, Illinois. Gordon Cook is known for Ironic real views, still life and landscape painting, printmaking.
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 Unive ...
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James (Darrell Northrup) Weeks
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David James Gilhooly III
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Paul John Wonner
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Manuel Neri Jr
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Christopher Brown
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William Theophilus Brown
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Joan Brown
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Elmer Nelson Bischoff
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Julius Wasserstein
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Roland Petersen
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David Park
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Nathan Joseph Roderick Oliveira
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Terry St John
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Dennis Hare
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Lundy Siegriest
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Carlos Almaraz
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Jacques Schnier
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Roy Dean De Forest
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Tony Berlant
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Jack Zajac
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Henrietta Berk
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Ruth Lanier Asawa
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Robert Carston Arneson
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Peter Alexander
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Author
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ARTnews
Reviews
January 1996
Editors, Art News
Yes
8 Book References for Gordon Cook
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2005
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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
1997
Burgard, Timothy Anglin
Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
47
Yes
1995
Nash, Steven A
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
216
Yes
1991
Oakland Museum
De-Persona
(Exhibition catalog)
103
Yes
1985
Albright, Thomas
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
349
Yes
1977
Seabolt, Fred/Donald Goodall
New in the Seventies (Archer Huntington Gallery Exhibition)
(Exhibition catalog)
60
Yes
1976
Baro, Gene
30 Years of American Printmaking Including 20th National Print Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)
160
Yes
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