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Please don't hesitate to make an offer. We are always very negotiable & open to offers Here is a gorgeous original Western Charcoal drawing of a gold miner / prospector by the New Mexico, California artist Howard Norton Cook (1901 - 1980). Measuring 16 1/2" x 22" end to end. Signed at the lower left "Howard Cook". Blacklight tested. Guaranteed satisfaction. Biography: Howard Norton Cook (1901 - 1980) Considered one of America's best-known print makers including a series of woodcuts of the Grand Canyon in 1927, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator & lecturer who served frequently as guest professor in numerous universities & art schools. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts & took his formal art training at the Art Students League in New York, beginning 1919 & then traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Orient, & Central America. in 1926, he took his first trip West & served as an illustrator for "Forum" magazine. He married Barbara Latham, modernist Southwest artist, & also developed a great fascination for the Santa Fe & Taos areas, where he became a resident. in 1937, he won the largest mural commission ever given to a Taos artist when the Treasury Department's Section of Painting & Sculpture chose him to paint sixteen fresco murals in the lobby of the main post office in San Antonio, Texas. His frescoes portray a history of Texas from the days of the Spanish conquest to the 1930s. in 1967 was appointed the first artist-in- residence at the Roswell Museum in Roswell, New Mexico. in the 1930s, he twice earned Guggenheim Fellowships, spending one year & a half painting in Taxco, Mexico, & also time in the Deep South where he painted & did prints of genre scenes of black people. These works are now in the Georgia Museum of Art & the J. Frank Dobie Collection at the University of Texas. During World War II, he was an artist & war correspondent in the South Pacific, & his illustrations from this time were exhibited at the War department at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. & later circulated as a traveling exhibition. biography from Wikipedia Howard Norton Cook | 1901-1980 Original Charcoal Western Gold Miner New Mexico
