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Barbara Cooney

American Writer

Born: Aug 6, 1917

Died: Mar 10, 2000

Art Become Ego Heart Me Worked

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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. Barbara Cooney

Art Me Mother Lesson Gave Enthusiastic Only Brushes Clean Could Generous Also Mess She How Condition Very Wanted Oils Painter Wash Paints Her Kept Watercolors

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. Barbara Cooney

Life Me Photography Quality Light My Life Sense Mood Paramount Able Spirit Through Importance Until Became Discovered Began Decade Gradually Place Then Fifth Forties Paint Travels

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