Artist

John Cooper

View of Pickering
White Horse Hotel, Whitby
Loggerheed Yard, Whitby
Town Hall, Whitby

John Cooper is a Regionalism artist. 16 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Cooper specialized in quiet watercolor views of northern England from the 1940s. His brush tracked stone bridges, abbey ruins, and moorland towns like Rievaulx and York in soft washes of greens and umbers. Tap Ashberry Bridge (South side), Rievaulx to step into a sunlit lane where ivy climbs crumbling arches, or drift to The Vale of Pickering from the Castle Grounds for sweeping valley light.

Works by John Cooper

Collections represented

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