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'Beryl Cook', OBE (born 10 September 1926 in Surrey) is a popular English painter.
She is famous for paintings of fat people, a kind of populist genre painting of ordinary, unassuming folk without pretensions and their typical activities, with a playful streak of vulgarity and naughtiness. Her paintings are bold, large, comical and bright.
She attended Kendrick Girls' Grammar School, Reading. She had no formal training and did not take up painting until middle age.
From July 2007 her work, curated by Peter Doroshenko, has been exhibited at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.

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★ Art critics attack 'Tate of the North' over Beryl Cook exhibition - the Independent on Sunday re Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art exhibition July 2007

★ "But why show such a commercial artist in such a publicly funded venue?" - article about Baltic exhibition in the Sunday Times May 2007

★ Official website

★ Short biography from the BBC

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★ Gallery Ref page

★ Call this a national treasure?