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Howard Cook Original Woodblock, 1926 "Giant's Thumb"
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Wonderful woodblock by Taos artist Howard Cook (1901-1980).
Titled: “Giant’s Thumb” (alternate title: Monument Rock).” Edition: 50.
Image size: 14"h x 8 1/8"w. Sheet size: 14 1/2"h x 10 1/2"w. Duffy #23.
Unframed and presents in a four-ply museum mat measuring 20 3/4 x 14 1/2 inches.
Pencil signed and dated lower right. Pencil titled lower left. In excellent condition.
Considered one of America's best-known print makers, Howard Cook was also a painter, illustrator and lecturer who served frequently as guest professor in numerous universities and art schools.
He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and took his formal art training at the Art Students League in New York, beginning 1919 and then traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, Turkey, the Orient, and Central America.
In 1926, he took his first trip West. He married Barbara Latham, modernist Southwest artist, and also developed a great fascination for the Santa Fe and Taos areas, where he became a resident.
In 1937, he won the largest mural commission ever given to a Taos artist when the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture chose him to paint sixteen fresco murals in the lobby of the main post office in San Antonio, Texas. In 1967 he was appointed the first artist-in- residence at the Roswell Museum in Roswell, New Mexico.
In the 1930s, he twice earned Guggenheim Fellowships, spending one year and a half painting in Taxco, Mexico, and also time in the Deep South where he painted and did prints of genre scenes of black people. These works are now in the Georgia Museum of Art and the J. Frank Dobie Collection at the University of Texas.
- Creator:Howard Norton Cook (Artist)
- Dimensions:Height: 20.75 in (52.71 cm)Width: 14.5 in (36.83 cm)Depth: 0.07 in (1.78 mm)
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- Date of Manufacture:1926
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- Seller Location:Phoenix, AZ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1875337550292
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