Trouble in Paradise:Examing Discord Between Nature and Society
Julie Sasse, Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art, 2009
Western Art Collector, January 2008
An Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Dan Leach Collection, Julie
Sasse, Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art, 2007
The Artists Bluebook, Lonnie Pierson Dunbier, Editor, 2005
American Art Collector, December 2005
Highlights, Michael K. Komanecky, Editor, Phoenix Art Museum Collection, 2002
New American Painting No. 36, 2001
Faces of Arizona, Michel F. Sarda, 1999
New American Painting No. 12, 1997
Plain Pictures, Joni Kensey, 1996
The Red Book, Southwest Art, 1993
The New Mexican, January 1993, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tucson Weekly, November 1992, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson Citizen, November 1992, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson Citizen, March 1991, Tucson, Arizona
Images Showing Locomotion’s Effect, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 1990
Into the Superstitions, January 1989, Channel 12 News, Phoenix, Arizona
The Arizona Daily Star, February 1989, KUAT television
The Territorial, January 1989, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson Citizen, January 1989, Tucson, Arizona
Arts Magazine, February 1987
American Artist, Watercolor 1988 Issue
Dallas Morning News, September 12, 1986, Dallas, Texas
American Realism: Twentieth Century Watercolors and Drawings, Harry N.
Abrams, Jr., NY 1986
New Orleans Times-Picayune, February 1986, New Orleans, Louisiana
Chicago Tribune, May 1982, Chicago, Illinois
Sunday Sun Times, May 1982 Chicago, Illinois
American Artist, February 1982
Chicago Sun-Times, May 1981, Chicago, Illinois
Ocular Magazine, “New Faces, New Images”, Fall 1981
"Arts Beat”, James Cook, KUAT (Ch. 6), 11/10/92, Tucson Museum of Art
Solo Show, Tucson, Arizona
“Arts Beat”, Fine Art for Fine Causes, KUAT (Ch. 6), March 1990, Tucson, Arizona
“Arts Beat”, KUAT (Ch. 6), 1993, Tucson, Arizona
"Arts Beat”, James Cook and George Harkins, Davis Gallery, Tucson, Arizona,
KUAT (Ch. 6) 1994
Art Talk, Cover Story 1999
New American Painting, Vol. 12, 1997
New American Painting, Vol. XXIV, 1999
American Artists, February 2000>
Robert A. Yassin statement about an American artist, James Pringle Cook:
"James Cook is an American artist.
He is not an American artist simply because he was born
in America, or because he studied here, or because he
works here, or because the subjects of his paintings are
American subjects. He is an American artist for all these
reasons, and more importantly because he sees himself and
believes himself to be an American artist and part of
the American tradition in art."
Stephen Vollmer statement about James Pringle Cook's paintings:
"Cook's paintings are powerful while
remaining remarkably sensitive to an environment that is
fully revealed through the brush and mind of the artist.
In each painting, one is fascinated by his ability to
translate refracted light through color interwoven with
textures, shadows, and depths of field. Adeptly, he guides
us down paths we might normally not see, to look more
closely at the space and planes between the fore and
backgrounds. His compositions are ever changing patterns
that are not unlike intricate weavings related to baroque
silk brocades from the Orient."