James Pringle Cook

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.