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Summer's Bounty, 1982
by Dorothea Cooke (Gramatky)
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"My mother was 73 when she lived in Glen Rock, New Jersey, and painted this watercolor for her own pleasure in a watercolor class. She was an excellent gardener all her life and when she moved over two doors away from our house, she began growing vegetables and flowers again."
Courtesy of Daughter-Linda Gramatky Smith
About Dorothea Cooke (Gramatky)
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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...
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