Lot 426: Clarence Cook (1828-1900) American author and art critic

Name: Clarence Cook (1828-1900) American author and art critic
Brand: East Coast Books
SKU: a8747798b2
Price: 25 USD

Est: $50 USD - $75 USDPassed

East Coast BooksWells, ME, USSeptember 14, 2019

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Clarence Cook (1828-1900) American author and art critic. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola. In the mid-1850s Cook began to read works by John Ruskin and associated with a group of American artists, writers, and architects who followed Ruskin's thinking. Through this group he became aware of the British Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In 1863, with Clarence King and John William Hill he helped to found the Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art, an American group, similar to the Pre-Raphaelites, who published a journal called The New Path. In 1869 Cook wrote A Description of the New York Central Park. In 1877, articles on home furnishings that Cook had written for Scribner's Monthly were published as a book entitled The House Beautiful. In 1879, Cook served as editor for Wilhelm Lôbke's History of Art. ALS, 1879, 2pp, To Mr. Koehler, saying that Mr. Schoff of Boston had applied to Mr. Wunderlich for work. Cook gives his opinion of Schoff's work. VG.

Artist or Maker

Clarence Chatham Cook

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ART ON PAPER, autographs & Other Paper Items

East Coast Books

September 14, 2019, 10:00 AM EST

PO Box 849, Wells, ME, 04090, US

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