Roger Cooke (artist)

He would eventually attend Portland State University for two years in its art program before finishing a four-year bachelor’s degree in illustration at the ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles in 1970.

His freelance-illustration career began in Oregon after two years with Jackson-Zendor Studio in Indianapolis, Indiana.

His inspiration drew most heavily upon the nature of Oregon and the life of pioneers and Native Americans.

Roger Cooke died on March 27, 2012, after a three year battle with Multiple Myeloma cancer.

[2] Located along the corner of Broadway and Holladay in Seaside, Oregon, stands a 60-foot mural depicting the historical lifestyle of the Clatsop-Nehalem tribes.

Seaside, along with other sites from Bay Center, Washington to Garibaldi, Oregon, became a powerful resource for other displaced families and tribes.

Signs in Sandy now show the historical route of the Barlow Road for visitors to drive along.

The mural depicts three children of the town's founder, John Franklin Firebaugh, in a wagon filled with milk containers being pulled by a horse.