Jane White Cooke

Jane White Cooke (January 10, 1913 – May 8, 2011) was an American portrait painter.

Jane White Cooke
Born
Frances Jane White

(1913-01-10)January 10, 1913
Montclair, New Jersey, United States
DiedMay 8, 2011(2011-05-08) (aged 98)
Shelburne, Vermont, United States
OccupationPainter
Websitejanewhite.org

Cooke was born Frances Jane White in Montclair, New Jersey on January 10, 1913. A war widow, in 1946 she remarried to journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke. She was interested in art from an early age, and as an adult created hundreds of paintings. Her portraits of Nathan Milstein and Alistair Cooke are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.[1][2][3]

References
  1. "Jane White Cooke (1913 – 2011)". The Barre Montpelier Times Argus. May 10, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  2. "Jane White Cooke". The Telegraph. May 20, 2011. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
  3. Holly Rumbold (May 25, 2011). "Jane White Cooke obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved July 29, 2018.


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