Английская Википедия:Austin Cooper (artist)
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox person/Wikidata Austin Cooper (1890–1964) was a Canadian–British illustrator and commercial artist. His work included cover illustrations for the Radio Times (including the 1935 Christmas edition)[1] and posters for the London and North Eastern Railway, the Empire Marketing Board,[2] London Transport, and the General Post Office. Examples of the latter are now in the collections of London Transport Museum[3] and the British Postal Museum.[4]
Career
Cooper was born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada,[5] on 5 March 1890,[6] the son of an Irish farmer.[7] Cooper studied at the Cardiff School of Art, and then the Allan-Frazer College of Art in Arbroath.[7]
He began his career as a commercial artist after returning to Calgary,[7] at a commercial art studio alongside fellow Arbroath student Adam Sherriff Scott. The two produced a Шаблон:Convert[8] painting "Christ in Calgary" (1913; thought lost),[9] which was exhibited unsigned at the Royal Picture Gallery there for six months, described by the Calgary News-Telegram (one of whose street-vendors was depicted in the painting[8]) as showing:
On being identified as one of the artists Cooper's only comment, to a newspaper, was "We have nothing to say about it except what appears on the canvass".[8] Subsequently, he and Sherriff-Scott set up their own company, Shagpat Studios, in Montreal.[9]
During World War I he was in Flanders with the Canadian Black Watch, rising to Regimental Sergeant Major, before being discharged in 1919. He moved to London in 1922,[5][7] having met his wife-to-be there.[9]
From 1936 to 1940, he was principal of the London branch of the Reimann School of Commercial and Industrial Art.[5]
Later in his career, in 1943, he gave up commercial art for abstract painting.[5] His first solo exhibition was held in 1948, at the London Gallery.[5] Several of his abstract works are in the collection of the Tate Gallery.[10]
He died in 1964.[5]
Bibliography
References
Further reading
External links
- Austin Cooper (1890–1964) and the Art Of The Poster – 2010 blog post with photograph of Cooper
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