Word: benkert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the 34 oils that make up the major part of the show cover subjects ranging from landscapes to the entrails cart of a Martinique slaughterhouse, Cooke is at his best in a half-dozen portraits. Probably the best of these is his Portrait of Ernst Benkert, executed with bold brushwork in a subdued but powerful palette...
...speed with which Cooke's style is developing has already climinated these and other flaws in the later paintings. From the earliest work in the show, Dry Mountain, Jamaica, (1951) to the Benkert portrait and Tower of Babel, he has come a long way in both technique and color. Almost sloppy, ineffective brushwork and a frightened approach to a Fauve palette in the former are resolved into a powerfully executed composition in the rich, dark colors, which Cooke now favors, in the latter...