WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Fall 2014

James Pringle Cook '72

"Spruce Study #1" oil, 24" x 36"

Painting by James Pringle CookA native Kansan who now lives in Tucson, Ariz., Cook paints in the best tradition of American landscape painting.

His works have been described as “big and gutsy, full of virtuosity, with lavish, vigorous and confident brush strokes.”

His artistic subjects range from the prairie splendor of the Flint Hills, to urban and industrial scenes, to the spindrift of seascapes and the rushing, plangent water of mountain streams.

His paintings hang in the Denver Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, South Dakota Museum of Fine Arts, Tucson Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Osaka, Japan.

Among his recent exhibitions was The Painted Image, featuring large-scale paintings depicting the Flint Hills and Southwest motifs, at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, Kan.

His work is included in dozens of public art collections from New York, to London, to Kyoto, Japan.


SHOCK ART

The Rush of Days

A gallery of both literary and visual art, Shock Art showcases works by Wichita State alumni, faculty and students.

James Pringle Cook '72

A native Kansan who now lives in Tucson, Ariz., Cook paints in the best tradition of American landscape painting.

John M. Pototschnik '68

Born in St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Pototschnik grew up in Wichita and studied advertising design at Wichita State and illustration and design at Los Angeles’ Art Center College.