A 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.
