William Delafield Cook
{{Short description|Australian artist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|02|28|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Caulfield, Victoria, Australia
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|03|29|1936|02|28|df=yes}}
| death_place = London, England
| nationality = Australian
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| occupation = Artist
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| parents = Rodin Cook and Dorothy C. Cook nee Newing.
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William Delafield Cook AM (1936–2015) was an Australian artist who was known for his photorealistic landscapes.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41489799 |title=return of a realist. |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly | date=2 July 1975 |access-date=31 March 2015 |page=81 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} He won a number of awards, including the Order of Australia.
Early life
Delafield Cook was born in Melbourne, Australia on 28 February 1936.[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/william-delafield-cook-artist-hailed-as-one-of-australias-finest-whose-monumental-canvases-depicted-10248157.html Obituary of William Delafield Cook, The Independent, 14 May 2015] Retrieved 13 August 2020
{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11019661 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=7 March 1936 |access-date=31 March 2015 |page=17 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}[http://sgp1.paddington.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/art_profiles/article_1629.asp?s=1 William Delafield Cook] Retrieved November 2012 His grandfather, who was also named William Delafield Cook, was also a painter and had links to the Heidelberg School of Australian painting.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140840185 |title=PERSONAL. |newspaper=The Australasian |location=Melbourne |date=29 August 1931 |access-date=31 March 2015 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}
In 1962 he married 1962 Sally Patricia Bovington, with whom he had two daughters, and a son, the artist Jonathan Delafield Cook.
In 1980 he won the Wynne Prize for A Waterfall (Strath Creek), and in 1981 he won the Sulman Prize for A French family.
He taught at the University of Melbourne.
In 2013 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to the visual arts as a realist painter of Australian landscapes".[https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1147787 It's an Honour]. Retrieved 3 April 2015
He died after a brief illness in London on 29 March 2015, where he had been preparing for an exhibition; he was aged 79. He had long divided his time between London and Melbourne.[http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/australian-artist-william-delafield-cook-dies-aged-78/story-e6frg8n6-1227285107019?nk=a0e148af786470e2b55d2a45d873dc90 Australian artist William Delafield Cook dies aged 78, (31 March 2015), The Australian] accessed 31 March 2015
Notes
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References
- {{Citation | author1=Hart, Deborah | author2=Delafield Cook, William, 1936- | title=William Delafield Cook | year=1998 | publication-date=1998 | publisher=Craftsman House : G + B Arts International | isbn=978-90-5703-691-0 }}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=EHLPqa5o96AC&dq=william+delafield+cook&pg=PA208 Pierse, Simon, Australian Art and Artists in London, 1950-1965: An Antipodean Summer] Retrieved November 2012
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=gsiib-Hi5sQC&dq=william+delafield+cook&pg=PA212 Sayers, Andrew, Australian Art, Oxford University Press] Retrieved November 2012
- [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/william-delafield-cook-artist-hailed-as-one-of-australias-finest-whose-monumental-canvases-depicted-10248157.html Obituary of William Delafield Cook, The Independent, 14 May 2015] Retrieved 13 August 2020
External links
- [http://sgp1.paddington.ninemsn.com.au/sunday/art_profiles/article_1629.asp?s=1 William Delafield Cook] Retrieved November 2012
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Category:Australian landscape painters
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Australian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Category:People from Caulfield, Victoria
Category:Artists from Melbourne