Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964)
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INCORPORATED BY BRITISH CHARTER 1839 NO DATE Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A57 © The Artist's Estate
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SOUVENIRS IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM 1932 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A69 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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CERAMICS AT THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM 1932 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A70 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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LONDON'S LEISURE HOURS. STUDY THE ARTIST'S MASTERPIECES 1933 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A75 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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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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LONDON'S LEISURE HOURS ENJOY THE ACTOR PERSONATIONS 1933 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A72 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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BRITISH MUSEUM ETHNOGRAPHY 1928 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A60 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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COUNTRY WALKS. BY LONDON TRANSPORT 1936 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/A76 © London TransportTfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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SATURDAY'S 'MORNING POST' SERVES THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE NO DATE Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/B30 © The Artist's Estate
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THE CLOTHES THEY WORE WHEN GRANNY WAS A GIRL! 1922 Austin Cooper (1890 – 1964) M/X36 © TfL from the London Transport Museum Collection
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..
Glossary
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Painting
Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.