Background
Cooke, Honore Guilbeau was born on February 11, 1907 in Baton Rouge. Daughter of Braxton Honoré Guilbeau and Mary Bangs Magruder.
Cooke, Honore Guilbeau was born on February 11, 1907 in Baton Rouge. Daughter of Braxton Honoré Guilbeau and Mary Bangs Magruder.
Student, Southern Methodist University. Graduate, School Art Institute Chicago, 1929.
Instructor Art School Akron (Ohio) Art Institute. Artist, teacher National Museum Women in the Arts, Washington. Works exhibited at The Cleveland Museum Art, Philadelphia Museum Art, Whitney Museum American Art, New York, Cleveland Artist's Show in Miami Beach, Florida, Syracuse (New York ) National Ceramic Exhibition, Massillon (Ohio) Museum, Instituto de Relations Cultural, Mexico City, 1969, Sylvia Ullman American Crafts Gallery, Cleveland, Northeast Ohio Museum Art, Cleveland, Akron Art Museum, 1995, New York Art Association National, Cooperstown, 1995, 96, Florida Pastel Association, 1995, 96, Coopers Town Art Association, 2001.
Author, illustrator: Mistress Magpie's Invention, 1971. Illustrator: The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan, 1947, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1948, Shaving Shagpat, 1955, I Know a Farm, 1960, The Birthday Tree, 1961, Who Goes There in My Garden?, 1963, Hundreds and Hundreds of Strawberries, 1969, Treemendous Gifts (Buck Cooke), 2000.
Married Edmund Vance Cooke Junior, October 1930 (deceased October 1978). Children: Jennifer Gail, Jeremy Vance.