Jane White Cooke (January 10, 1913 – May 8, 2011) was an American portrait painter.[1][2]
Jane White Cooke | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frances Jane White January 10, 1913 Montclair, New Jersey, United States |
| Died | May 8, 2011 (aged 98) Shelburne, Vermont, United States |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Website | janewhite.org |
Cooke was born Frances Jane White in Montclair, New Jersey on January 10, 1913.[3] She attended the National Academy of Design, where she was awarded several prizes (alongside classmate and friend Robert McCloskey), including a traveling scholarship to study in Europe.[4] In 1937, she married A. Whitfield Hawkes, son of Albert W. Hawkes who later served in the U.S. Senate, but her husband, a neurologist, died in the South Pacific in late 1943.[5] In 1946 she remarried to journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke,[6] a marriage that lasted until his death in 2004.[7]
She was interested in art from an early age, and as an adult created hundreds of paintings, mostly portraits and also still lifes and landscapes, including of the north fork of Long Island. Her portraits of Nathan Milstein[8] and Alistair Cooke[9] are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.
References
edit- ^ "Jane White Cooke". The Telegraph. May 20, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ^ Holly Rumbold (May 25, 2011). "Jane White Cooke obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved July 29, 2018.
- ^ "Jane White Cooke (1913 – 2011)". The Barre Montpelier Times Argus. May 10, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
- ^ "Art Students Win 35 School Prizes: Honors Bestowed at Annual Commencement of National Academy of Design". The New York Times. April 28, 1936. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ "Hawkes' Son War Victim: Maj. A. W. Hawkes Dies in South Pacific Area of Tick Bite". The New York Times. December 29, 1943. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ "Mrs. Hawkes is Married: Former Jane White Bride Here of Alistair Cooke of BBC". The New York Times. May 1, 1946. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ Frank J. Prial--> (March 31, 2004). "Alistair Cooke, Elegant Interpreter of America, Dies at 95". The New York Times. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ "Nathan Milstein". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
- ^ "Alistair Cooke". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved September 16, 2024.
External links
edit- "Jane White" First page of her former gallery/official website, © 2008 by Adam Lindquist Scoville (archived), including thumbnails of 12 of her paintings.
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