Mr. Cook

John Wesley Jarvis

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

James (or John) W. Cook (or Cooke) was the first husband of Anna Milner, who married James Jarvis in 1817, after Cook's death. The miniature descended in her family.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art