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Peter Cook, a portrait and landscape painter, was born in New York City in 1915 and graduated with a B.A. in Architecture in 1937 from Princeton University. He studied painting in New Hope, PA with John F. Folinsbee; at the National Academy of Design in New York City under Gifford Beal, Leon Kroll and Harry Rittenberg; and with Arthur Lee at the Art Students League.
Mr. Cook taught painting at the National Academy School in New York in addition to teaching in New Hope, Pennsylvania; Clearwater, Florida; and Princeton, New Jersey. He had one-man shows in Boston, Richmond, Palm Beach, Chattanooga, Minneapolis, and Princeton. He was a member of the National Academy of Design and the Century Association of New York City. Among the prizes he won for figure, landscape, and portrait painting are the Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship, President’s Prize, Clearwater Art Museum; First Prize, Montclair Art Museum; Grumbacher Award, Newark, NJ; Bronze Medal, National Arts Club; Governor’s Prize, and the Maine Arts Festival’s Century Association Medal. |
His paintings are in the collections of Princeton University, Bradley College, Rutgers University, Temple University, Harvard University, Wells College, Washington University in St. Louis, Simmons College, the United States Supreme Court, the Air and Space Museum, the United States Coast Guard, and the United States Navy.
Many companies and institutions commissioned Cook to paint official portraits, including the New England Merchants Bank, Baltimore Life, St. Marks School, Home Insurance Company, Educational Testing Service, Holderness School, Purnell School, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Louis University, Children’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, and the National Art Museum of Sport. |