Cosgrove biography
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Denis Cosgrove
British cultural geographer and professor
Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948 – 21 March 2008) was a British cultural geographer. He taught at Oxford Polytechnic, Loughborough University, Royal Holloway, University of London, where he rose to become dean of the graduate school, and finally at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1998, he received the prestigious Back Award from the Royal Geographical Society.[1]
Biography
[edit]Cosgrove was born and raised in Liverpool, the second eldest of six children.[2] His father, a bank manager and devout Roman Catholic, was very active in his upbringing, sending him to the Jesuit school he had himself attended, St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool.[2] Geography was a subject Cosgrove loved, but the school had a low opinion of it, and as an A-stream student he was forced to drop it in favour of Latin and Greek (protesting to the headmaster, a priest, his mother was told emphatically "geography is a girl's subject").[3]
He won an open scholarship to read geography at St Catherine's College, Oxford.[4] He graduated in 1969, going on to complete an MA in geography at the University of Toronto. After marrying his first wife in New York, he returned to the Un
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Born in Montreal in 1911, Stanley M. Cosgrove was educated at the École des beaux-arts in Montreal beginning at the age of 26, and afterwards at the Art Association of Montreal where he studied figure painting under Edwin Holgate.
He enjoyed the rare honour of being invited to exhibit, while still a student, at the Provincial Museum of Quebec in 1939. About this time he was following the work of French painters like Braque and Rouault. He received a scholarship from the Province of Quebec in the earlier part of the year, and had the intention of studying in France for four years, but the outbreak of the Second World War forced a change of plan. He was allowed to study on the American continent so he chose New York. He arrived with his wife but after only two months found it unsatisfactory and finally moved to Mexico. There, he became interested in fresco painting and approached Jose Clemente Orozco through teacher friends. Orozco, who had just begun a fresco for the Hospital Jesus de Nazareno in the heart of Mexico City agreed to let him help with some parts of the work. Cosgrove arrived each morning at six to help mix mortar, prepare plaster and work at everything from cleaning brushes to sweeping floors. On the fresco itself, Cosgrove was allowed to apply fla
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