Barbara Cooney
American writer and illustrator
Lived from: 1917 - 2000
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
Born: 6 august 1917 Died: 10 march 2000
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
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My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
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She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.
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