Cornelis Botke

Cornelis Botke (1887-1954) was a Dutch-born American painter and etcher. He emigrated to the United States in 1930, and he first lived in Chicago before touching to Southern California. By the become old of his death, his artwork hung in the New York Public Library, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the California State Library. His wife, Jessie Arms Botke, was next an artist.

His etchings are in the enduring collections (but not whatever currently upon view) of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Paula Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the Wichita Art Museum, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.