Fog Patterns.

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  SKU: 50970

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• ARTIST: Howard Cook

• MEDIUM: Pastel and charcoal,

  DATE: c.1951.

• EDITION SIZE: Paper size 27 7/8 x 14 1/2" (70.8 x 36.9 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Signed lower right in pencil "Howard Cook." <BR><BR> This pastel and nineteen others were exhibited at fifteen museums and one gallery over a three-year period. The traveling exhibition entitled "Pastels by Howard Cook" was initiated by Donald Bear (Santa Barbara Museum of Art) and Ninfa Valvo (de Young Museum, San Francisco). <BR><BR> It is in the original frame made by the artist. The original gray board mat was replaced with a museum-quality, acid-free mat. <BR><BR> A romantic view of buildings and a twin-steeple church in Manhattan. The exact church is not identified; it could be Calvary Church at 277 Park Avenue South, or more likely, the tops of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in midtown. <BR><BR> “. . . Cook is a romantic. A sense of exhilaration, a feeling for the grandeur and glamour of towering cities and mountains is what animates his work. His color, always strong, varies from the shimmering neon effects of ‘City Night #1’ to the smoke and fog colors, the harsh greys, blacks, browns and others of ‘Lower Manhattan.’ While realistic for the most part, in ‘Fog Patterns’ and in ‘Waterfall’ he veers toward cubism and these are two of his best pictures. . . .” <BR> Art Digest, December 15, 1952, page 18,

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Good condition and color, backed on board by the artist and in the original frame made by the artist.

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• CATEGORIES: 20th-21st Century Subjects , New York City , Manhattan - Downtown