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Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900

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Personal name headingCook, Clarence, 1828-1900
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Variant(s)Cook, Clarence Chatham, 1828-1900
See alsoGraduate of: Harvard University
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedFishkill Landing (N.Y.) France
Birth date1828-09-08
Death date1900-06-02
Place of birthDorchester (Boston, Mass.)
Place of deathFishkill Landing (N.Y.)
Field of activityArt criticism Teaching
Profession or occupationAuthors Art critics Teachers
Found inHis The house beautiful, c1980: t.p. (Clarence Cook)
LC data base, 11-28-83 (hdg.: Cook, Clarence Chatham, 1828-1900; usage: Clarence Cook)
Clarence Cook's role as art critic, advocate for professionalism, educator, and arbiter of taste in America, 1997.
Wikipedia, viewed August 31, 2020 (Clarence Cook; Clarence Chatham Cook (September 8, 1828 - June 2, 1900) was a 19th-century American author and art critic. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War. Cook died at his home in Fishkill Landing, New York, from complications of Bright's Disease. He was 71)
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