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Howard Norton Cook
'Taxco Market' — 1930s Rare American Modernist Scene of Mexico
1932-33

Name: 'Taxco Market' — 1930s Rare American Modernist Scene of Mexico
Brand: Howard Norton Cook
Price: 4500 USD
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Howard Cook, 'Taxco Market', aquatint and etching, 1932-33, edition 30, Duffy 181. Signed and titled in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (3/4 to 1 inch). A light tape stain across the top sheet edge (7/16 inch) away from the image; a spot stain in the upper left margin, away from the image, otherwise in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches (225 x 302 mm); sheet size 12 x 16 1/8 inches (305 x 410 mm). Awarded the Logan Medal, International Exhibition of Etching and Engraving, Art Institute of Chicago, 1935. Exhibited: 'Impressions: Prints of Mexico, 1930s-40s / Impresiones: Estampas de México, 1930s-40s', Zimmerli Art Museum, 2018. Impressions of this work are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Library of Congress, McNay Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980) was one of the best-known of the second generation of artists who moved to Taos. A native of Massachusetts, he studied at the Art Students League in New York City and at the Woodstock Art Colony. Beginning his association with Taos in 1926, he became a resident of the community in the 1930s. During his career, he received two Guggenheim Fellowships and was elected an Academician in the National Academy of Design. He earned a national reputation as a painter, muralist, and printmaker. Cook’s work in the print mediums received acclaim early in his career with one-person exhibitions at the Denver Art Museum (1927) and the Museum of New Mexico (1928). He received numerous honors and awards over the years, including selection in best-of-the-year exhibitions sponsored by the American Institute of Graphics Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Society of American Etchers, and the Philadelphia Print Club. His first Guggenheim Fellowship took him to Taxco, Mexico in 1932 and 1933; his second in the following year enabled him to travel through the American South and Southwest. Cook painted murals for the Public Works of Art Project in 1933 and the Treasury Departments Art Program in 1935. The latter project, completed in Pittsburgh, received a Gold Medal from the Architectural League of New York. One of his most acclaimed commissions was a mural in the San Antonio Post Office in 1937. He and Barbara Latham settled in Talpa, south of Taos, in 1938 and remained there for over three decades. Cook volunteered in World War II as an Artist War Correspondent for the US Navy, where he was deployed in the Pacific. In 1943 he was appointed Leader of a War Art Unit and served in the Solomon Islands in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. During the later period of his career, he concentrated increasingly on painting, leaving home from time to time to take on visiting professor assignments at various universities. In 1967, Cook became the first artist in the Roswell Museum and Art Center's Artist-in-Residence program. The couple started to spend their winters in Roswell, New Mexico, where they eventually moved in 1973, and then due to Cook's ill health, the couple moved to Santa Fe in 1976. Cook’s graphic work is in many major museum collections, including the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts; Albuquerque Museum; Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; British Museum, London; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Detroit Museum of Art; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth; Metropolitan Museum of Art; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum; U. S. Library of Congress; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Creator:

Howard Norton Cook (1901-1980, American)

Creation Year:

1932-33

Dimensions:

Height: 8.88 in (22.56 cm)Width: 11 in (27.94 cm)

Medium:

Etching,Aquatint

Movement & Style:

American Modern

Period:

1930-1939

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Myrtle Beach, SC

Reference Number:

Seller: 1041781stDibs: LU532312140702

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Howard Norton Cook

Howard Norton Cook left his childhood home in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1919 to receive formal training in New York at the Art Students League. While in New York, Cook studied under George Bridgman and attended an experimental class with Max Weber and Andrew Dasburg. He spent his time between sessions painting outdoor billboards and working in lithography and photo-engraving shops. In 1922, Cook began work as an illustrator, contributing woodcuts and drawings to Harper's, Scribner's, Survey, Atlantic Monthly, and Forum. Various assignments allowed him to travel all over the world. Cook was on assignment for Forum to illustrate the serialization of Willa Cather's Death Comes to the Archbishop when he first visited New Mexico in 1926. Cook remained in New Mexico for a year and a half, during which time he met and married artist Barbara Latham. During the next few years, the couple traveled to Paris where Cook studied in a prominent lithographic workshop; to Taxco, Mexico, where he studied fresco painting on a Guggenheim fellowship; and to the Deep South of the United States on a second Guggenheim fellowship. In 1935, Cook and Latham settled in Taos, New Mexico. By that time, Cook had been represented in 50 Prints of the Year several times, yet his focus turned to fresco painting. He traveled across throughout the United States on mural commissions and, in 1937, the Architectural League of New York awarded Cook the Gold Medal for mural painting. Cook later served in the Navy as an artist-war correspondent in the South Pacific. His paintings from that period were exhibited in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and later displayed across the U.S. in a traveling exhibition funded by the War Department. After returning from the war, Cook produced several powerful lithographs depicting his experiences in the South Pacific. In 1949, he was elected to membership in the National Academy as a graphic artist. During the 1940's, Cook was known for his watercolors set in New Mexico. Later paintings in oil became increasingly abstract. Some of the artist's favorite subjects included Southwestern landscapes and Indian dances that focused on conveying a strong sense of movement. Throughout his career, Cook was a guest professor at many art schools and universities. In 1967, he became the first artist in residence at the Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM. Howard Cook remained in New Mexico until his death in 1980. ©David Cook Galleries, LLC