Barrie Cooke
Anglo-Irish artist

Barrie Cooke

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Anglo-Irish artist
Gender:
Male
Places:
Ireland
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Painter
Work field:
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Death:
4 March 2014(Leighlinbridge)
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Barrie Cooke (1931, Cheshire, England – 4 March 2014, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland) was an English-born Irish abstract expressionist painter.
Cooke spent part of his childhood in Jamaica and Bermuda, before moving to the U.S., where he studied art history at Harvard University. His work is represented in such collections as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Haags Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), and other public and private collections worldwide.

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  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
  • Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham
  • Dublin City University: Couple 2