Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964)

SOUVENIRS IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM 1932 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A69 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
THE CLOTHES THEY WORE WHEN GRANNY WAS A GIRL! 1922 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/X36 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
LONDON'S LEISURE HOURS ENJOY THE ACTOR PERSONATIONS 1933 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A72/a © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
BRITISH MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY 1928 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A60 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
YARDLEY'S OLD ENGLISH LAVENDER SOAP - AFTER AN OLD PRINT NO DATE Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/B31 © The Artist's Estate
SATURDAY'S 'MORNING POST' SERVES THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE NO DATE Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/B30 © The Artist's Estate
LONDON'S LEISURE HOURS. STUDY THE ARTIST'S MASTERPIECES 1933 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A75 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
ACCOUTREMENTS. UNITED SERVICES MUSEUM 1928 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A59 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
OBJETS D'ART. WALLACE COLLECTION 1932 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A71 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
VISIT THE QUEEN'S STATE APARTMENTS; KENSINGTON PALACE; QUEEN ANNE 1931 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A67 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection

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Austin Cooper was born in Souris, Manitoba, Canada, the son of an Irish farmer. In 1896 the family moved to Cardiff where Cooper later studied at the local art school. He won a scholarship to the Allan Frazier Art College in Abroath; and later moved to London where he attended evening classes at the City and Guilds School. He returned to Canada and began a career as a commercial artist in Montreal, interrupted by war service in Flanders. In 1922 Cooper returned to London working as a poster artist for London Transport and other clients. He was principal of the London branch of the German Reimann School of Commercial and Industrial Art from 1936-40; this was the first commercial art school in the UK. Cooper returned to painting in the early 1940s and had his first one man exhibition at the London Gallery in 1948, in 1959 at the Galerie Craven in Paris and was a regular exhibitor at Gimpel Fils, London..