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Visit to Santa, 1936
by Dorothea Cooke (Gramatky)
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"My mother did this for her own enjoyment when she got to New York and was enamored with the Santas in big department stores. I love the touch of having a live Mickey Mouse there, since she'd just left California after my father ended his six-year contract with the Walt Disney studios. She was excellent at drawing small children, even though I wouldn't be born for another seven years."
Courtesy of Daughter-Linda Gramatky Smith
Literature: As seen in California Watercolors 1850-1970, by Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. An illustrated history and biographical dictionary.
As seen in California Watercolor Art from the Early 20th Century Through Today.
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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