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CHRONOLOGY

Reading edition

1828

September 8th, Clarence Chatham Cook born at Dorchester, Massachusetts.

Graduated at Harvard College.

Studied architecture for a season. Then became a tutor. Lectured on Art and gave readings from Shakespeare’s plays.

Married Tuesday, October 26th, to Louisa De Wint Whittemore, widow of Samuel Whittemore of New York City.

Began a series of articles published in the New York Tribune, on “American Art and Artists.”

Editor of The New Path, a pre-Raphaelite journal published in New York.

Published “The Central Park.”

Paris correspondent of The New York Tribune. Went to Italy at the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war.

Returned to the United States and renewed his connection with The New York Tribune.

Wrote the text of a heliotype reproduction of Dürer’s “Life of the Virgin.”

Completed “The House Beautiful” and edited, with notes, the translation of Lübke’s “History of Art.”

Editor and proprietor of The Studio, a monthly magazine of art published in New York.

Published an illustrated work in three large volumes entitled “Art and Artists of Our Time.”

Clarence Chatham Cook died at Fishkill-on-the-Hudson May 31, aged 72 years.