A fund-raiser to benefit the Manistee Art Institute, as a fitting kick-off to Manistee's celebration of National Historic Preservation Week. The one night event was a showing of the artist's 27 paintings before they travel to England for an exhibition at the City of Buxton Museum and Art gallery the summer of 1999. Cooper's works have been exhibited in the U.S.A. for nearly three decades at museums and historic sites.

Ken Cooper with his painting of the Grand Saloon at Calke Abbey in the room that inspired it.