Barrie C. Cooke (1931 – 4 March 2014) was an English-born Irish abstract expressionist painter. Cooke was born in Knutsford, to an English father and an American mother, and spent part of his childhood in Jamaica and Bermuda, before moving to the U.S. in 1947, where he studied art history at Harvard University. He moved to Ireland in 1954, and in 1955 went to Salzburg to study under Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka. His work is represented in such collections as the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Haags Gemeentemuseum (The Hague), and other public and private collections worldwide. He was a friend and collaborator of both Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney, illustrating Hughes's "The Great Irish Pike" (1982) and Heaney's Bog Poems (1975). The Barrie Cooke archive which contains letters and poems from friends, including Heaney and Hughes is at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He died in 2014 in Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland. Collections Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, Birmingham Dublin City University: Couple 2 References External links Aosdána biographical note, artscouncil.ie; accessed 11 March 2014. 1931 births 2014 deaths Harvard University alumni Abstract expressionist artists Aosdána members 20th-century English painters English male painters 21st-century English painters 20th-century Irish painters 21st-century Irish painters Irish male painters People from Cheshire People from Knutsford People from County Carlow Date of birth missing 20th-century English male artists 21st-century English male artists 20th-century Irish male artists