Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Whiteface Cattle, Texas Made in Texas, South, United States, North and Central America1935 Howard Norton Cook, American, 1901 - 1980 Transparent and opaque watercolor and dry brush with scraping out over traces of graphite on off-white wove paper Currently not on view 1973-12-410 Purchased with the Lola Downin Peck Fund from the Carl and Laura Zigrosser Collection, 1973 |
LabelThe printmaker and muralist Howard Cook held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1934-35 that enabled him to tour the Deep South for a year to study the essential characters of the working poor in out-of-the-way areas of the United States. He lived among and drew farmers, miners, steelworkers, craftsmen, and cowboys. This watercolor is dated to the time of his stay in South Texas, where he described the local cattlemen as "physical giants equaling in grandeur the vast country to which they belong as essentially as the mesquite and prickly pear that cover their desert." |
