Biography: 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...... read more
A California art print on Arches watercolor paper. 100% archival, and printed in HD.
"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
