Cooper, Oswald Bruce, 1879-1940
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Chicago lettering artist, advertising designer and type designer; creative partner of the firm of Bertsch & Cooper, 1913-1940.
Cooper was educated at the Frank Holme School in Chicago. He is best known for his Cooper Black and Cooper Bold typefaces, among the most successful advertising types of the twentieth century. He was a founding member of the 27 Chicago Designers and of the Society of Typographic Arts, which produced a retrospective tribute to him, The Book of Oz Cooper, in 1949.
From the description of Oswald Bruce Cooper papers, 1913-1940. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34997719
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Subjects:
- Advertising layout and typography
- Calligraphy
- Cooper Black type
- Cooper Bold type
- Designers
- Type and type-founding
- Type designers
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- Illinois--Chicago (as recorded)
