Boise Art Museum

Collections & Publications

James Pringle Cook

 

 

 

MUSEUM
COLLECTIONS:

Boise Art Museum, Idaho (photo above) 
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Rahr-West Museum, Wisconsin
Arizona State University Museum of Art, Tempe
Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington
University of Minnesota Museum of Art
University of Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City
South Dakota Museum of Fine Arts, SD
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
State University at Albany Museum of Art, New York
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona
The Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Princeton University Collection, Princeton, New Jersey
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado

PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS:

Allied Bank of Texas, Houston
A.T.&T., New York, New York
The Bank of New York, New York, New York
Canadian Petroleum Collection, Calgary, Alberta
Cargill Incorporated, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Chemical Bank, New York, New York
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Continental Illinois National Bank, Chicago
E.F. Hutton, New York, New York
Emporia State University, Kansas
Ernst & Whinney, New York, New York
First Bank of Evanston, Illinois
F.M.C. Corporation, Chicago, Il.
IBM, Stuttgart, Germany
The Kemper Group, Chicago, Il.
LaSalle National Bank, Chicago, Il.
Mr. And Mrs. William Janss, Sun Valley, ID
Marsh, McClellan, New York, New York
Mutual of New York, New York, New York
Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Il.
NYNEX, New York, New York
Otis Elevator Company, Connecticut
Owens - Illinois, Toledo, OH
Pacific Enterprises Oil Company of Dallas, Texas
Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison, New York, New York
Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey
Quarles & Brady Law Firm, Tucson, Arizona
The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minnesota
Sears, Roebuck & Company, Chicago, Il.
Sonoita Enterprises, Tucson, Arizona
Stephens, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas
Texaco, White Plains, New York
Texaco, London, England
Texaco, Kyoto, Japan
Thomas Duke Company, Troy, Michigan
Transwest/NCH Corporation, Tucson, Arizona
Tucson-Pima Library, Tucson, Arizona
U.S. Tobacco, Greenwich, Connecticut
West Publishing, St. Paul, Minnesota
United Airlines, Chicago, Il.
Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Ashland Enterprises, Tucson, Arizona
Yellowstone National Park Headquarters, Yellowstone, Wyoming

"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."

--Robert A. Yassin

 
The paint laden brush strokes glide on the surface of the canvas with each movement choreographed to create the image of a landscape, seascape, or urban landscape. One can hear his brush pressing against the canvas as the paint is manipulated creating Cook's energetic vision of nature. Rich color and texture enrapture the viewer as each painting has a life of its own.
 
 
White Mountain Study 07 #6
 
 
 
 
 
Redfeather 08 #2
 
 
 
 
 
Channel Fog #1
 

PUBLICATIONS AND
TELEVISION:  

Trouble in Paradise:Examing Discord Between Nature & Society, Julie Sasse,
Chief Curator, Tucson Museum of Art, 2009
Western Art Collector, January 2008
Art of the 4 Corners, Spring 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, Michael F. Sarda, 1999
New American Painting No. 12, 1997
Plain Picture, 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
 

              
  

Blue River Autumn 07 #1
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Artesia Twilight Study
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  LINKS:
   
 
  http://tv.azpm.org/kuat/segments/2009/4/21/kuat-trouble-in-paradise  
  http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Arts/Content?oid=79293  
  http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Arts/Content?oid=oid%3A55457  
  http://www.meyereastgallery.com/bio/default.asp?num=69  
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/pimacountypubliclibrary/3192034189/  
  http://chelseaartgalleries.com/Robert+Steele+Gallery/Forest+Light.html  
  http://www.williamhavugallery.com  
  http://www.artscapemedia.com/podcasts/archives/2007/03/james_cook_arti.html  
  http://www.marksublettemodern.com/content/Cookbiography.lasso  
  http://www.artscapemedia.com/podcasts/archives/2007/03/james_cook_arti.html  
  http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/07-08-97/tw_review1.html  
     
 
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