Looks good, in original "As Found" untouched condition, minor surface abrasions, minor surface grime, a few very small chips of missing paint, minor canvas dings upper left and upper right background, unframed-- please look at photos carefully.
Great looking composition by Peter Cook depicting a portrait of a darling little girl holding a stuffed bear. Cook was best known for his portrait paintings. This is a fine example of his work in good condition.
My price of $499 is extremely reasonable and far below what one would be expected to pay for it in a gallery or at auction.
Please view my other paintings listed on ebay this week--we are adding a new bunch every Thursday. If not sold they will go into my ebay store at a more realistic and higher buy-it-now price, or removed.
Biography:
Friends of Princeton's outstanding track star of the 1930s, William Bonthron, commissioned fellow Princeton alumnus, Peter Cook (1915-1992), to commemorate Bonthon's win over the era's track super hero, Glenn Cunningham of the University of Kansas. Cook painted two in 1983 - one is in Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium, one in the National Art Museum of Sport.
Cook graduated from Princeton University in 1937 with a degree in architecture and a record as an excellent hockey player. In the 1950s and '60s, he coached Princeton 's freshman hockey teams which included his three sons. He continued to play hockey into his 70s.
He began the study of painting in 1936 and in 1939 won a Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship and studied at the Academy of Design and Art Students League in New York. Cook combined running a family farm with painting until in 1946 when he started to receive enough portrait commissions that painting began to subsidize his farming.
Many of the commissions he received during his long career were from universities as well as corporations and the U.S. Supreme Court. He also painted landscapes in Maine and Europe as well as near his New Jersey home.
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