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Gordon Cook Hawaiian Dreams Watercolor Painting

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 600.00 USD
Gordon Cook Hawaiian Dreams Watercolor Painting
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Title is Hawaiian Day Dream. 7" by 10" unframed. 12" by 14 3/4" Gordon Cook (1927 - 1985) was active/lived in California, Illinois. Gordon Cook is known for Ironic real views, still life and landscape painting, printmaking. A painter and printmaker, Gordon Cook became active in the Bay Area California art scene from the time he was married to abstract painter Joan Brown in the 1970s. In fact, Brown painted a portrait of the two of them posed with their dog in the formal garden of the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House. His early paintings were small in size, muted in color, and usually depicted single still-life subjects such as a box, a single flower or a wheel. These works were both very defined and quite expressive with impasto paint application. Before then, his reputation was for printmaking, and after the 1970s, his focus turned to landscape painting, especially solitary buildings in the delta area of the Sacramento River. Cook has also painted floral still lifes, nudes, portraits and cityscapes. Cook was born in Chicago and attended Illinois Wesleyan University, earning a B.F.A. in 1950. He also attended the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. His work is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.