Jane White Cooke Explained

Jane White Cooke
Birth Name:Frances Jane White
Birth Date:10 January 1913
Birth Place:Montclair, New Jersey, United States
Death Place:Shelburne, Vermont, United States
Occupation:Painter
Website:janewhite.org

Jane White Cooke (January 10, 1913 – May 8, 2011) was an American portrait painter.

Cooke was born Frances Jane White in Montclair, New Jersey on January 10, 1913. A war widow, in 1946 she remarried to journalist and broadcaster Alistair Cooke. She was interested in art from an early age, and as an adult created hundreds of paintings. Her portraits of Nathan Milstein and Alistair Cooke are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

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