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Latitude
-31.9559
Longitude
115.8606
Start Date
1906-01-01
End Date
1991-01-01

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ID
tb90f1

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Birth Place
Perth, WA, Australia
Biography
Sculptor and modeller, daughter of Dr Leigh Cook of Claremont was born in Perth and studied at Perth and Fremantle Technical Schools over a number of years. She took both art and domestic subjects. Cook had not been able to enroll full-time because of duties in the family home. Cook, as the eldest daughter, was required to look after her delicate mother and younger sisters and could only attend intermittently between 1924 and 1928. She took classes in dress cutting and design, passing with credit, as well as art classes in life-drawing, light and shade (passing with credit) and landscape. Cook earned her living as a commercial artist, primarily as an illustrator, drawing advertisements for the jewellers Levinsons and Caris Bros and for Foy & Gibson department store. She also painted white furniture and wooden objects with wildflowers for the tourist industry and designed and screened curtain fabric. Cook became head of the women’s section of the Art Department at Ajax Plaster Co., before marrying the sculptor Edward Kohler who, after returning from Europe, became the head modeller at Ajax. After her marriage she made small clay models and figurines (in collaboration with her husband) as samples for Brisbane and Wunderlich. In 1950 Cook had two kilns built by her brother at her home in Gosnells and produced 'Kohlerware’. An example of Kohlerware was her angel vase. Writers: Dr Dorothy Erickson Date written: 2010 Last updated: 2011
Born
b. 1906
Summary
Eileen Cook was born in 1906. She was a sculptor and modeller. Cook earned her living as a commercial artist, primarily as an illustrator, drawing advertisements for the jewellers Levinsons and Caris Bros and for Foy & Gibson department store.
Gender
Female
Died
1991
Age at death
85