Howard Norton Cook
American painter and printmaker, 1901–1980
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American painter and printmaker, 1885–1962
Mexican American artist and master muralist, born 1968
American printmaker and architect, 1897–1998
Howard Norton Cook
BiographyBorn in Springfield, Massachusetts, Cook moved to New York to study at the Art Students League in 1919. He worked as a commercial artist and illustrator for mainstream magazines. A commission to illustrate Willa Cather's Death Comes to the Archbishop inspired a trip to New Mexico, where he eventually settled. He was a master printer skilled in etching aquatint, lithography, woodcut, and wood engraving. He made many dramatic prints of New York's skyscrapers and bridges. In the 1930s he began working as a muralist and he had several major mural commissions in the Southwest.
