A portrait of Cornelia Dozier Cooper by her friend Peggy Sherry , exhibited at the 2020 “ Women of Influence : Celebrating the Year of the Woman ” exhibit at the Kentucky Artisan Center .
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Cooper ’ s husband , Richard , was also well-known as a longtime businessman in the community .
Cooper moved here from
Madisonville in 1961 and instantly “ fell in love with the Pulaski County hills ... Lake Cumberland , and also the beauty of nature here , all around us .”
That natural beauty appealed to her eye as a watercolorist , and has inspired so many of her works , which have been
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