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Walter Cameron Cook

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Walter Cameron Cook (born 1941) is a New Zealand collector of decorative arts.[1]

Cook spent his childhood in towns in the lower North Island with his cleryman father and family.

In 1960 he moved to Wellington and began to collect decorative art - ceramics, glassware and metalwork dated between 1860 to 1970.

At the same time, he acquired books which shaped his growing knowledge that focused on the passage towards modernism. Books and journals included those withdrawn through the Wellington Public Library . Cook collected objects that exhibited examples from design movements which were highlighted in the collection include the Arts & Crafts Movement, Aestheticism, Art Nouveau, Art Deco and modernism.

From working as a gardener which first funded his collection, he worked at Wellington Public Library, then the Alexander Turnbull Library.

In 1992 with his then wife, Adrian Smith, he gifted the collection to the Museum of New Zealand which soon after became Te Papa Tongarewa the Museum of New Zealand.

The collection has been subject to three exhibitions and one book 'Towards Modernism: the Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa', by Justine Olsen, published by Te Papa Press in 2025

References

  1. ^ Olsen, Justine (2025-01-01). Towards Modernism: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa. Te Papa Press. ISBN 978-0-9951384-7-6.

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