Beryl Cook by Bracegirdle, Hilary

Beryl Cook (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781805702627)

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Beryl Cook by Bracegirdle, Hilary

Beryl Cook

$40.00
Beryl Cook by Bracegirdle, Hilary

Beryl Cook

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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Discover the life and work of Beryl Cook, a wildly original artist whose bold, humorous paintings celebrate women, pleasure, and everyday life without apology.

Beryl Cook (1926-2008) was a self-taught British artist known for herband her joyful, irreverent view of the world. Her paintings feature confident, larger-than-life women--dancing in nightclubs, lingering over meals in cafés, or celebrating together with uninhibited delight. Rendered in vibrant color and graphic forms, her work is funny, warm, and refreshingly honest.

Emerging in the mid-1970s, Cook quickly became one of Britain's most popular artists, admired for scenes that challenge conventional ideas of beauty while embracing humor, community, and pleasure. Her work is celebratory yet provocative, offering a rare female perspective on public life, friendship, and desire. Collectors of her work include Jackie Collins, Whoopi Goldberg, and Yoko Ono.

Published to coincide with the centenary of her birth, Beryl Cook brings together her most important paintings alongside previously unpublished drawings and sketches. The book offers a full view of her artistic journey, revealing the woman behind the work and the world she so vividly portrayed.

Whether you are a long-standing admirer or discovering Beryl Cook for the first time, this is the ideal moment to encounter her work in full.

Author: Hilary Bracegirdle
ISBN-10: 1805702629
ISBN-13: 9781805702627
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.31lbs
Size: 9.90h x 7.73w x 0.91d
By Hilary Bracegirdle
By Hilary Bracegirdle
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Hilary Bracegirdle has enjoyed a career as a curator and director in a variety of museums, starting with the V&A and including The National Horseracing Museum in Newmarket and the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro. She has also held several roles at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery (now known as The Box). She has looked after an extraordinary collection for Devon and Cornwall Police, worked as a heritage consultant and in 2015, completed the maximum six-year term as Committee Member, SW Committee for the Heritage Lottery Fund.

In the course of her work, Hilary has curated numerous exhibitions in the UK, Germany, the US and Japan. None of them made people quite so joyful as the Beryl Cook exhibition that she developed for Plymouth City Council in 2017. She continues to be in demand for her lively talks about Beryl.

Hilary has written numerous reports, options appraisals, strategies and business cases, and has published and edited catalogs, but none of them have been especially amusing. Beryl Cook is her first book

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