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Howard CookBorn in Springfield, Massachusetts, Cook studied art at the Art Students League in New York. He became a nationally known painter, muralist, and master of all graphic media. He was commissioned by Forbes magazine to illustrate Willa Cather's, Death Comes for the Archbishop, and went to the Southwest for this purpose. Here, he met and married another fellow artist, Barbara Latham. After extensive travel they eventually made New Mexico their permanent home. Cook was granted two Guggenheim Fellowships to work in Mexico and the American South. During the WPA years he did two frescoes for the Courthouse Building in Springfield, Massachusetts. At the outbreak of World War II, he was appointed Artist War Correspondent with the rank of colonel, and recorded the activities of American forces in the South Pacific. Stationed in the Solomon Islands he completed prints, drawings, watercolors, and paintings on the war.
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Howard Cook American (1901-1980) Mexican Boy, Taxco 15-1/2 x 10-3/8 in.
Aquatint, soft-ground etching and sandpaper, 1940, edition 20. Duffy 199.
Signed in pencil. Printed on laid paper with watermark, Vidalon.
Narrow margins.
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Howard Cook American (1901-1980) Mexican Family 10-1/2 x 13-3/8 in.
Lithograph, 1940, edition 250. Duffy 200. Signed
in pencil.
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Howard Cook American (1901-1980) Rosanna 11-3/4 x 8-7/8 in.
Lithograph, 1939, edition 250. Duffy 197. Signed in pencil.
Printed on wove paper with full margins.
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Howard Cook American (1901-1980) Eagle Dance 10 x 8 in.
Wood engraving, 1942, edition 200. Duffy 201. Signed and dated in pencil. The twenty-first publication print of the Woodcut Society, Kansas City, 1942. In excellent condition with full margins.
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Howard Cook American (1901-1980) Country Store 5-7/8 x 9 in.
Etching, 1929, edition 50 (only 40 printed). Duffy 106. Signed and edition noted in pencil. Printed on tissue thin paper with large margins. Selected for Fine Prints of the Year, 1931, pl.70.
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Howard Cook American (1901-1980) Mexican Interior 16-1/8 x 11 in.
Etching, 1933, edition 50. Duffy 174. Signed and dated in pencil; inscribed 'Mexico' in pencil and edition '50' circled in lower margin. Printed by the artist with an inscription, 'imp.' Printed on tissue thin Japanese paper with adequate margins. Selected for Fine Prints of the Year, 1933, pl.70. Awarded the John Taylor Arms Prize in 1933, from the Society of American Etchers, and first prize, Annual Print Exhibition, 1933, from the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
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