Decorating the Tree, 1949
by Dorothea Cooke (Gramatky)
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"This painting was done for a Jack & Jill Magazine cover, and my mother used the children of her best friend, Emily Davidson, as models (Lee and Billy). I posed too for my mother as I was almost seven at the time."
Courtesy of Daughter-Linda Gramatky Smith
About Dorothea Cooke (Gramatky)
| Dorothea Cooke (Gramatky), (1908-2001) Born: Hollywood, CA, Studied: Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles). Dorothea Cooke graduated from Hollywood High School before deciding not to go to college but to study her passion, art. Her parents had come from New Hampshire where her father, Charles Prentice Cooke, was an MIT graduate and her mother, Harrie Gertrude Edgerly Cooke, attended Wellesley. Her father was a civil engineer who helped design the “five finger drives” that opened up the San Fernando Valley to being developed. She and her sister, Hellen, were both chosen by legendary Stanfo... (Read More) |
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