Gail Severy Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
SEEN WITH THE BRUSH
Theodore Waddell & James Pringle Cook
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Lily Lake #1 © 60"x48" oil on linen
Robert Yassin statement about the painter, James Pringle Cook:
He paints quickly creating richly colored and exciting surfaces. Indeed, his bravura use of paint is akin to the Abstract Expressionists; unlike them, however, he provides the viewer with a recognizable reality, ordered by his own personal vision and controlled by his technical mastery. In subject matter and the interpretation of that subject, Cook has an American vision which owes much to tradition, but it is tradition that is, in the artist hands, fully redefined taking on a new personal, but very important meaning.
Interview with Fred See and James Pringle Cook:
FS: There are numerous art books about American landscape paintings. Do you have the sense that you are painting something that we are losing or that is threatened?
JPC: I was reading something a couple of days ago about a painter painting a moment which passed. That place did not go away, it just changed. I have painted some places for thirty years, and they have changed, but they did not go away.
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Medicine Man Gallery's Dr. Mark Sublette interview with James Pringle Cook
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Teton Valley #1 © 30"x36" oil on linen
Mt. Lemmon-Aspen © 36"x42" oil on linen
Teton Valley #2 © 30"x36" oil on linen
