Suzanne Cooper

For the British non-fiction writer, see Suzanne Fagence Cooper.

Suzanne Cooper (1916-1992) was a British Modernist^[1] painter and wood-engraver. Her 1936 oil painting "Royal Albion," at the Auckland Art Gallery (NZ), is noted for the "artist's use of simplified blocks of form and colour."^[2] She grew up in Frinton-on-Sea and studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art in London.^[3] Between 1935 and 1939,^[4] she exhibited her oil-paintings and wood-engravings at the Redfern Gallery, the Zwemmer Gallery, the Wertheim Gallery and the Stafford Gallery, and with the National Society of Painters, Sculptors & Print-Makers and the Society of Women Artists. The influential collector Lucy Wertheim, in addition to exhibiting her work, bought two of Cooper's oil paintings.^[5]

Brightlingsea - wood engraving by Suzanne Cooper 1937

Exhibitions

• "Suzanne Cooper: The Rediscovery of a Forgotten Artist,"^[6] 17–25 March 2018, The Fry Art Gallery Too, Saffron Walden (solo exhibition)
• "Suzanne Cooper and the art of wood engraving,"^[7] 2 June - 1 July 2018, Printroom Studio, Suffolk (group exhibition)
• 'Suzanne Cooper' 1–7 April 2019 - The Morley Gallery, London (solo exhibition)