On her travels: “It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me.To this day, I don’t consider myself a very skillful artist." On her graduation from Smith College: "I have felt way behind technically and what I’ve learned I have had to teach myself.The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long. Not that I ever took instruction very easily. On her grandmother and mother: "She gave me all the materials I could wish for and then left me alone, didn’t smother me with instruction.Portions of her original artwork are being displayed at Bowdoin College. Her last book, Basket Moon, was published six months before her 10 March 2000 death at a house that her son built for her in Damariscotta, Maine. In 1996, Maine Governor Angus King honored Miss Cooney by proclaiming the day "Barbara Cooney Day". In 1982 she won the National Book Award for Miss Rumphius.
Between then and when she picked the other Caldecott in 1980 for Ox-Cart Man (written by Donald Hall), she traveled a lot, picking up ideas to draw and, occasionally, write. Ten years later, she won her first Caldecott for Chanticleer and the Fox, a book that she illustrated and adapted the text from Chaucer. Soon after her service, she met and married Guy Murchie(Jr), in 1944 and had two children (Gretel and Barnaby.) She later divorced, and remarried Charles Talbot Porter in July 1949 and had two more children (Charles and Phoebe.) During World War II, she served in the Women’s Army Corps. She later graduated from Smith College with a history degree, and her first book illustrated, Ake and His World, by the Swedish poet Bertil Malmberg, was published a year after graduation.
She attended Buckley Country Day School and later Boarding School. She had a twin brother and two younger brothers. Cooney was born on 6 August 1917 in Room 1127 of the Hotel Bossert in Brooklyn, New York, to Russell Schenck Cooney (a stockbroker) and Mae Evelyn Bossert (a painter).
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