Paul Rodda Cook
(1897-1972) San Antonio, Texas

        Born in Uvalde, Texas, Paul Rodda Cook became a noted landscape painter of Texas, also painting still lifes & florals in oil and watercolor.

        Cook began his art studies in San Antonio, Texas with Hugo David Pohl (1878-1960) who had a studio in Brackenridge Park. He then went to Taos, New Mexico and studied under Walter Ufer (1876-1936) and Leon Gaspard (1882-1964). Later he studied in Boston with H. Dudley Murphy (1867-1945) and in Woodstock, New York with Henry McFee (1886-1953) and Charles Rosen (1878-1950).

  Cook had a successful career and exhibited regularly, winning honorable mention in 1928 at the prestigious Edgar B. Davis national competition at the Witte Museum. Of other important exhibits, he exhibited at the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition at the Dallas Museum of Art, as well as in New York, Arizona, Missouri and New Mexico.

    Cooks works are found in numerous public and private collections.

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