Cooke, Hereward Lester, 1916-1975
Curator
Size: 3000 items.
Summary: Research notes, exhibition catalogs, and other printed material compiled in the 1970's for a proposed book, AMERICAN WATERCOLORS 1866-1910, intended to be a comprehensive biographical index of American watercolorists.
Curator, National Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C. Lived 1916-1975.
Some of the papers compiled by Cooke were destroyed by fire.
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Hereward Lester Cooke papers, circa 1970-1975. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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