James Brooks
Painting, Visual Artist
1906 – 1992
Who was James Brooks?
James Brooks was an American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island. In 1947 he married artist Charlotte Park. Considered a first generation abstract expressionist painter, Brooks was amongst the first abstract expressionists to use staining as an important technique. According to art critic, Carter Ratcliff "His concern has always been to create painterly accidents of the kind that allow buried personal meanings to take on visibility." In his paintings from the late 1940s Brooks began to dilute his oil paint in order to stain the mostly raw canvas. These works often combined calligraphy and abstract shapes. Brooks had his first one-man exhibition of his abstract expressionist paintings in 1949 at the Peridot Gallery in New York.
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- Born
- Oct 18, 1906
St. Louis - Also known as
- Брукс, Джеймс
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Southern Methodist University
(1923 - 1926) - Art Students League of New York
(1927 - 1930)
- Southern Methodist University
- Lived in
- Brookhaven
(1926 - 1992/03/09)
- Brookhaven
- Died
- Mar 9, 1992
Brookhaven
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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