Born in Corsicana, Cooke studied at Ward-Belmont Junior College in Nashville, Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, with Birger Sandzen, and Colorado College in Colorado Springs. The artist lived at Dalhart, Texas, briefly then moved to Taos in 1933. Cooke exhibited in the Midwest and at the Museum of New Mexico, the Denver Art Museum, and the Texas Centennial Exposition. From 1949 to 1971 she was the art and society editor for the Taos News and continued her column in the Taos News until 1988.
Friends of Southwestern Art Purchase
Now on display in the PPHM Southwestern Gallery.