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Howard Cook, 1901-1980
Fiddler’s Contest, 1935, lithograph
Gift of an anonymous donor and the Friends of the Mulvane Art Museum, 2002
Born in Springfield, MA, Cook studied at the Art Students’ League in New York in the early 1920s. In 1934, he received a Guggenheim fellowship to travel through the rural South. According to Cook, he wanted “to search out the essential character of representative American individuals.” This image depicts the winners of a fiddling contest in a small town in Alabama.