Background
Cook, Howard Norton was born on July 16, 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank Chester and Annie (Norton) Cook.
Cook, Howard Norton was born on July 16, 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Frank Chester and Annie (Norton) Cook.
Studied Art Students League, New York City, 1919-1921.
Commissioned to do war industry paintings Office Emergency Administration, Norfolk, Virginia, 1942, guest professor art, University Texas, 1942-1943, U. New Mexico, summers 1947, 60, University of California, 1948. Guest instructor Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1949. Teacher painting Minneapolis School Art, 1945, 50, guest artist, 1950.
Leader war art unit Civil Engineer, United States Army, Pacific Theater of Operations, 1943.
War artist correspondent Collier’s magazine, 1943-1944. Guest artist Scripps College, 1951, Washington University, Saint Louis, 1954-1955, Highlands (New Mexico) University, summer 1957.
Artist-in-residence Roswell (New Mexico) Museum and Art Center, 1967-1968. Exhibition war paintings, watercolors, Rehn Galleries, 1945, oil paintings of New Mexico, winter 1949.
Paintings of New York, Alexandre Rabow Galleries, San Francisco, 1955.
War paintings Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1968. Paintings of the City, Grand Central Moderns, New York City, 1951, 56, Grand Central Moderns, Collages exhibition, 1960, 64, Philadelphia Art Alliance, exhibition collages 1961, paintings, collages Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1961. Paintings Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1977.
Retrospective paintings exhibitions
Rosequist Galleries, Tucson, 1962, Raymond Burr Galleries, Beverly Hills, California, 1962, Roswell Museum and Art Center, 1975, 76. Retrospective exhibition graphics Prakapas Gallery, New York City, 1976.
Exhibition prints and watercolors Bethesda (Maryland.) Art Gallery, 1977, 78. Executed fresco murals law library, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1934, Federal Building, 1936, Pittsburgh, Alamo Plaza Physician organization Lobby, San Antonio, 1937-1939.
Member regional and national jury American Painting Today, Metropolitan Museum illustrator in woodcut, pen and ink on Forum (6 years), Harper’s Century, Scribner’s, Survey Graphic, Nation magazines Member Graphic Class National Academy of Design.
Married Barbara Latham, May 27, 1927.