Kokoschka Lecture, 1949

File

Reference Code: GBR/1058/COO/8/1

Scope and Contents

Typescript of a lecture given by ?Kokoschka at the Boston Museum School which was taken down by one of the students in shorthand and subsequently typed up. 2 copies. The item is dated c. 1949 but may date from Cooke's time at Kokoshka’s School of Seeing.

Dates

Creation: 1949

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Biographical / Historical

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher. Cooke went to Austria to study at Kokoshka’s School of Seeing in 1955.