Jorge Cocco

Jorge Cocco (born 1936) is a Latter-Day Saint artist who primarily paints but has also done sculpture and other forms of art. Cocco was born in Argentina. He studied art in Spain for seven years and then lived in Mexico for eight years, during which time he was a professor at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. Due to this connection with Mexico he is as times described as being from Mexico.

Cocco and his wife Myriam Verbauwen are the parents of six children.

Several museums in Argentina, Spain and Mexico, including the Museum of Church History and Art have works by Cocco in their collections. Among his more widely produced works is "Nobility of Work" showing King Benjamin toiling in the soil.

References

• bio with Cocco's website
• "Pre-Hispanic look at Book of Mormon", Church News, June 24, 2006
• Terryl L. Givens. People of Paradox: A History of Mormon Culture. (Oxford: University Press, 2007) p. 338.
• this article has paintings by Cocco with it
• Oman, Richard G. (1992), "Artists, Visual", in Ludlow, Daniel H, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, New York: Macmillan Publishing, pp. 70–73, ISBN 0-02-879602-0, OCLC 24502140