Beryl Cook's New York

by Beryl Cook

Genres: Art

64 pages, Hardcover

First published September 12, 1985

About the author

Beryl Cook, OBE (10 September 1926 – 28 May 2008) was a British artist best known for her original and instantly recognisable paintings. Often comical, her works pictured people whom she encountered in everyday life, including people enjoying themselves in pubs, girls shopping or out on a hen night, drag queen shows or a family picnicking by the seaside or abroad. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until her thirties. She was a shy and private person and in her art often depicted the flamboyant and extrovert characters she would have liked to have been.

Reviews

[Adrian · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a lovely sunny day at Coney Island, and not many people about as it was before the season had started. We bought a plastic Mickey Mouse and Miss Piggy, then some lunch and sat on a seat on the boardwalk. There was only one family on the miles and miles of beach and whilst they sat in the sunshine father exercised, running on the spot, jumping and leaping continuously. I craftily painted in two footprints, to show he is jumping and not just hanging about in mid-air.



There is something very pleasing about Beryl Cook's unique style of art and the above picture really amused me.

This volume collects moments and thoughts from a trip to New York with her husband and is particularly enjoyable as we have recently been there ourselves. 4 stars.

[Paul Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

[Alfred A. Knopf] (1985). 1/1. HB/DJ. 64 Pages. Purchased from World of Books Ltd.

Beryl Cook (1926-2008) was a humble, witty, razor-sharp, playful, idiosyncratic, perceptive artistic genius whose joie de vivre oozes from these wonderful images of New York life.

~30 works are reproduced in colour here, in her fourth collection; many with charming, accompanying commentary.

Marvellous stuff, redolent of Gary Larson, P. G. Wodehouse, Donald McGill, Rupert Fawcett…