Mario Cooper
Born 1905 - 1955
Education Chouinard and Otis Art Institutes, Columbia University, Grand Central School of Art

Cooper\'s father was an American citizen from California, his mother was Mexican. When he was nine years old, his father took him to California - as his future wife Dale Meyers wrote \"to escape the turmoil of the Mexican Revolution\" . He initially received his artistic training at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles , then continued at the Grand Central School of Art and Columbia University in New York. He studied illustration with Pruett Carter and Harvey Dunn , further sculpture with Oronzio Maldarelli .

Mario Cooper initially worked mainly in advertising, in an engraving house, a repro technical house that companies in the US usually in conjunction with an advertising agency.

His breakthrough as an illustrator he had in 1930, when he first received an order from Collier\'s . In the next twenty years, many of his works appeared in Collier\'s , such as the illustrations for a series of crime novels by Agatha Christie, which there as serialized novels were published. Mostly he worked with colored ink on the drawing board , also with watercolors.

In 1954, Mario Cooper was included in the art funding program of the US Air Force, and later in the since 1962 existing art funding program of NASA, which should serve primarily to document the success of space travel in the form of works of art.

Teaching: Grand Central School of Art, Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, National Academy of Design

Memberships
Society of Illustrators
Audubon Artists -president
Nat\'I WC Society -president
National Exhibition at the NY World\'s Fair, 1939
American Watercolor Society -president 1959 - 1986
National Sculpture Society

Awards:
Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame inductee 2009
online gallery: http://www.americanartarchives.com/cooper,m.htm

Mario Cooper History of American Illustration