Using the lost wax process, Robert Cook has made a lifelong career of capturing motion in bronze. His sinewy dancers, exuberant animals and vigorous athletes are caught in the flow of action.

In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, his twenty-foot-wide statue of a horse race and seventeen-foot-wide camel are among the largest bronzes cast in the lost wax process. "Dinoceras" is a landmark on New York's Park Avenue. "Thespis" punctuates the theater center in Canberra, Australia.

Extensive travels, often to Africa and Asia, have filled his sketchbooks with drawings of animals, dancers and athletes. Other images are generated by Cook's vibrant imagination—for instance, expressions of the human condition, mythological beings and abstractions born from the jazz music that infuses his studio.

Raised in Boston, Massachusetts, Cook graduated from Milton Academy and knew early on that he would pursue a career in art. He studied with George Demetrios, a classical sculptor trained by Bourdelle, a student of Rodin. During World War II he served in the U.S. Corps of Engineering as a map and model maker. After the war he moved to Rome with a Fullbright grant for advanced study. Settling permanently in Italy, he built a large studio and country home outside of Rome.

The scale of Cook's lively figures ranges from monumental to pocket-size. He has created numerous art medals, some as small as 4 inches in diameter. His penchant for using circles lends itself to the design of medals. The British Medal Society, the Victorian Albert Museum in London, British Museum and the American Medalic Art Society have collected and commissioned his medals.

He has been honored with prizes from the Prix de Rome, National Academy of Arts and Letters and thee Tiffany Foundation. The Whitney Museum in New York and Hirshorn in Washington, D.C. have acquired his works. He is a member of the National Sculpture Society and Sculptors Guild, and an honorary trustee of the Sculpture Center in New York City.

ONE MAN SHOWS include (starting with more recent):

Simmons Gallery, London, UK 1998, 2000
Newman Saunders Gallery, Wayne, PA 1991, 1993, 1996, 1999
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 1997, 1998
Glass Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1991
Sculpture Center, NYC 1953–1983
Gallery 88, Rome, Italy 1963, 1969, 1979
Creighton University Art Gallery, Omaha, NE 1978
Sun Co. Headquarters, Radnor, PA 1978
Schenectady Museum, Schenectady, NY 1977
Concourse Gallery, Boston, MA 1977
Nesto Gallery, Milton, MA 1976
Art Institute, Boston, MA 1974, 1975
Centerville Gallery, Centerville, DE 1971
Mickelson Gallery, Washington, DC 1971
Wellfleet Art Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1970, 1971
Museum of Arizona University, Tucson, AZ 1969, 1970
Norfolk Museum, Norfolk, VA 1968
Walter C. Rowe Museum, Courtland, VA 1968
Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA 1968
Tyler School of Art, Rome, Italy 1968
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC 1967
Hunter Gallery Museum, Chattanooga, TN 1967
Ravinia Festival, Chicago, IL 1963
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA 1951
Galleria Chiurazzi, Rome, Italy 1950