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Howard Cook

Howard Cook

American, 1901–1980

WA-00026650

Painting

Representation

None documented

6

Institutional Exhibitions

21

Works in Collection

61

Assets Indexed

6

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

80%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ5919336

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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New York/New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

No image

New Acquisitions: American Painting and Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1942

No image

New Acquisitions: American Drawings

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1942

No image

Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1941

No image

PM Competition: The Artist as Reporter

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1940

No image

Three Centuries of American Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1938

Field Verification (5 fields)

5 cross-verified · 0 single-source

BiographyWikipedia + Duplicate Merge· 88%✓
Birth yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
NationalityDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
Primary mediumDuplicate Merge· 85%✓

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1228
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (21)

1949 · lithograph

Sheet: 44.5 x 35.6 cm (17 1/2 x 14 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Jungle Rations - Guadalcanal

1945 · lithograph

Sheet: 48.6 x 35.5 cm (19 1/8 x 14 in.); Image: 40 x 28.9 cm (15 3/4 x 11 3/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tio Vivo (Figures riding a carousel)

1944 · Lithograph

Sheet: 20 7/8 × 16 1/8 in. (53 × 41 cm) Image: 16 9/16 in. × 13 in. (42 × 33 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1942 · wood engraving

Cleveland Museum of Art

1937 · Wood engraving

Sheet: 14 7/8 × 12 3/16 in. (37.8 × 31 cm) Image: 9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in. (25.3 × 20 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1935 · Lithograph

Sheet: 12 in. × 15 15/16 in. (30.5 × 40.5 cm) Image: 10 1/4 × 13 3/8 in. (26 × 34 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Mexican Landscape (Desert Tree)

1933 · etching and aquatint

Cleveland Museum of Art

Mexican Interior

Mexican Interior

1933 · Engraving

plate: 16 1/8 x 10 11/16" (41 x 27.2cm); sheet: 17 7/8 x 12 3/8" (45.4 x 31.4cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Taxco Flower Boy - Birthday Present for H.C.

1932 · Black and red-brown conte crayon on paper

19 1/4 × 12 5/8 in. (48.9 × 32.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Taxco Flower Girl - Birthday Party for H.C.

1932 · Black and red-brown conte crayon on paper

19 × 13 1/2 in. (48.3 × 34.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for etching "Mexican Interior"

1932 · Black ink with graphite on paper

13 3/4 × 18 1/8 in. (34.9 × 46 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Study for fresco "El Torito" Hotel Taxqueno, Taxco

1932 · Black ink with graphite on paper

12 7/8 × 14 5/16 in. (32.7 × 36.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Self Portrait

1932 · Lithograph

composition: 8 9/16 x 10 1/4" (21.8 x 26cm); sheet: 12 11/16 × 18 7/16" (32.3 × 46.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1931 · wood engraving

Cleveland Museum of Art

Airplane

1931 · Wood engraving

composition: 11 3/4 × 9" (29.9 × 22.8 cm); sheet: 14 1/16 × 11 1/8" (35.7 × 28.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Times Square Sector

1930 · Etching

Sheet (Irregular): 13 7/8 × 11 1/2 in. (35.2 × 29.2 cm) Plate: 11 13/16 × 9 7/8 in. (30 × 25.1 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Greetings from the House of Weyhe, 1929

1929 · wood engraving

Cleveland Museum of Art

Greetings from the House of Weyhe (Christmas Card)

1929 · Woodcut

composition (with letters): 7 15/16 x 4 7/16" (20.1 x 11.3cm); sheet: 9 x 5 1/2" (22.9 x 14 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Central Park South

1929 · Wood engraving

composition 8 7/8 x 7 5/16" (22.6 x 18.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1928 · woodcut

Cleveland Museum of Art

Taxco Market

Etching and aquatint

plate: 8 7/8 x 11 15/16" (22.6 x 30.3cm); sheet: 10 11/16 × 14" (27.2 × 35.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

21 published of 27 catalogued · 9 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
7 published
The Met
7 published
MoMA
6 publishedof 12 catalogued9 img
Whitney
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 7)

7 entries · 1 sources

Jungle Rations - Guadalcanal
1945 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Wood Interior
1931 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Skyscraper
1928 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Mexican Landscape (Desert Tree)
1933 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Tio Vivo #1
1949 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Greetings from the House of Weyhe, 1929
1929 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Eagle Dance
1942 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Relationships

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Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Whitney Museum of American Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art