Clarence Cook
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Clarence Chatham Cook (September 8, 1828 - June 2, 1900) was a 19th century American author and art critic.
Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Harvard in 1849 and worked as a teacher. Between 1863 and 1869, Cook wrote a series of articles about American art for The New York Tribune. In 1869, he moved to France and was the Parisian correspondent for The New York Tribune until the onset of the Franco-Prussian War.
Cook was known for his expertise in archeology and antiquities and was instrumental in the criticism of the collection of General di Cesnola.
In 1869 Cook wrote A Description of the New York Central Park. In 1877, articles on home furnishings that Cook had written for Scribner's Monthly were published as a book entitled The House Beautiful. In 1879, Cook served as editor for Wilhelm Lübke's History of Art.
Cook died at his home in Fishkill Landing, New York, from complications of Bright's Disease. He was 71.
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- Cook, Clarence. The House Beautiful: An Unabridged Reprint of the Classic Victorian Stylebook. New York: Dover Publications, 1995.
- Graff, M. M. The Men Who Made Central Park. New York: Greensward Foundation, 1982.
- Morris, Lloyd R. Incredible New York; High Life and Low Life of the Last Hundred Years. New York: Random House, 1951.
- "Clarence Cook Dead" The New York Times. June 3, 1900
