John Cook

John Cook - "Winter Voglers Cove"
John Cook - "The Survivor Meteghan River"
John Cook - "The Deserted Swing"
John Cook - "Summer, LaHave Island"
John Cook - "Store Front, Barrington Street"
John Cook - "Old Barn, Lunenburg County"
John Cook - "In the Rawden Hills"
John Cook - "Fish Shacks"
John Cook - "Fall Scene In Woods Near Petite Rivière"
John Cook - "Cape Smokey"
John Cook - "At Brown’s Brook Near Crowstown"
John Cook - "A Light On The Sea, Crescent Beach"

Artist Bio: John Cook (1918-1984)

John Cook was born in Halifax and showed interest in painting as a child. His education was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served the Canadian Army Signal Corps. After the war, he studied painting at the Slade School, London, England, and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Later he returned to Europe and furthered his studies at the Academie des Beaux Arts at Antwerp, Belgium.

Cook was one of the best-known artists working in Nova Scotia and in the second half of the twentieth century. He was primarily a landscape painter, although he also painted cityscapes and portraits. In addition to being a well-known local painter, John Cook owned and operated the Ten-Mile House Gallery in Bedford, where he exhibited the work of other Nova Scotia artists and ran an active teaching program. Cook exhibited frequently with the Nova Scotia Society of Artists and the Maritime Art Association.