POEMS

OF

CLARENCE COOK

CLARENCE C. COOK
AT THE AGE OF 36
FROM A PEN-AND-INK DRAWING MADE IN 1864
BY THOMAS C. FARRAR, PUPIL OFJOHN RUSKIN

COPYRIGHT, 1902
BY LOUISA W. COOK


PRIVATELY PRINTED
AT THE GILLISS PRESS, NEW YORK
FOR LOUISA W. COOK
AND HER FRIENDS
1902



THIS LITTLE VOLUME
OF PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED VERSES
BY THE LATE

CLARENCE COOK

IS DEDICATED TO HIS MANY FRIENDS AND LOVERS

BY HIS WIFE

LOUISA W. COOK

CHRONOLOGY

1828

September 8th, Clarence Chatham Cook born at Dorchester, Massachusetts.

1849

Graduated at Harvard College.

Studied architecture for a season. Then became a tutor. Lectured on Artand gave readings from Shakespeare’s plays.

1852

Married Tuesday, October 26th, to Louisa De Wint Whittemore, widow ofSamuel Whittemore of New York City.

1863

Began a series of articles published in the New York Tribune, on“American Art and Artists.”

1864

Editor of The New Path, a pre-Raphaelite journal published in NewYork.

1868

Published “The Central Park.”

1869

Paris correspondent of The New York Tribune. Went to Italy at theoutbreak of the Franco-Prussian war.

1870

Returned to the United States and renewed his connection with The NewYork Tribune.

1874

Wrote the text of a heliotype reproduction of Dürer’s “Life of theVirgin.”

1878

Completed “The House Beautiful” and edited, with notes, the translationof Lübke’s “History of Art.”

1884

Editor and proprietor of The Studio, a monthly magazine of artpublished in New York.

1886

Published an illustrated work in three large volumes entitled “Art andArtists of Our Time.”

1900

Clarence Chatham Cook died at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson May 31, aged 72years.

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