William Edward James Cook b. 1904

Also known as James Cook
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator),
  • Artist (Painter)
A painter and illustrator, after winning the Sawtell Travelling Scholarship, Cook worked as an art teacher, curator at the Art Gallery of Western Australia, and critic for the Daily Telegraph, Sydney.
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painter, illustrator, teacher, art critic and gallery curator, was born in Christchurch, NZ (his brother Alfred was also an artist). After studying at Canterbury School of Art in 1920-24 he won the Sawtell Travelling Scholarship and studied and travelled in London (where he shared rooms with William Dobell ) and at Edinburgh, Paris and Rome, 1924-27. Art teacher Canterbury Uni. High School 1927-33; official war artist WWII; teacher ESTC 1940; curator AGWA 1949-52; art critic Daily Telegraph (Sydney) 1952-59. Died of pneumonia while travelling in Italy in 1960. A meticulous painter and fine draughtsman, his work includes Two Tramps 1932, pencil, NERAM (ill. McCulloch, 178); Coffee Stall, London , WWII wash drawing, AGNSW, purchased 1942.

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1996
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Related stub people
  • Cook, Alfred (sibling of)
Related people
  • Dobell, William (associate of)
Related works
  • Coffee Stall, London (creator of)
  • Two Tramps (creator of)
Related collections
  • New Zealand public galleries, NZ (collected in)
  • University of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA (collected in)
  • Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Vic. (collected in)
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Vic. (collected in)
  • Australian War Memorial, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW (collected in)
Related recognitions
  • Sawtell Travelling Scholarship (received)