Ethel Grace Saunders b. 1913

Also known as Mrs Bessie Cook
  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer),
  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Commercial artist and painter who exhibited with the West Australian Society of Arts.
Tags: Commercial Art
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Commercial artist and painter who may have worked at Gibbneys. She had studied part time from 1931. Her husband was Allon Cook, painter and vigneron. They had a son, the artist Phillip Cook.

In 1934 she exhibited a drawing, Mr Hurley, and a watercolour, Iris, of her friend Iris Francis with the West Australian Society of Arts. In 1935 the painter and critic George Benson wrote of her work, “Bessie Saunders, a young girl student shows a promising portrait, Mr Jacobsen“.

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Writers:
Dr Dorothy Erickson
Date written:
2010
Last updated:
2011

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