James Brooks (painter)
James Brooks (born March 18, 1906 in St. Louis , ( Missouri ), † March 9, 1992 in East Hampton , New York ) was an American painter . He was one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism and was known for his wall paintings .
Life
James Brooks studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas , Texas from 1923 to 1925 . In 1926 he moved to New York. He continued his studies from 1927 to 1930 at the Art Students League .
James Brooks was a friend and neighbor in New York of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Island . In 1947 he married the artist Charlotte Park.
Brooks began exhibiting his pictures, which were first created in a "social realist style" , in numerous group exhibitions in the New York area in the early 1930s. His painting became more abstract , so that James Brooks is one of the early exponents of Abstract Expressionism. His painting is also assigned to Lyrical Expressionism .
James Brooks had his first solo exhibition in 1949 at the Peridot Gallery in New York. In 1959 Brooks took part in documenta 2 in Kassel . His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the world. Retrospectives of his art took place (among others) in 1963 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and in 1972 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts .
In 1973 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .
Works in museums and collections
- Brooklyn Museum New York
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Museum of Modern Art in New York
- Tate Gallery in London
- Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Boston Museum of Fine Art
- Dallas Museum of Art
- Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
- Southern Methodist University , Dallas
- Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin
literature
- New York School Abstract Expressionists Artists Choice by Artists . New York School Press, 2000, ISBN 0-9677994-0-6 .
- Exhibition catalog for documenta II (1959) in Kassel: II.documenta'59. Art after 1945 . Catalog: Volume 1: Painting; Volume 2: Sculpture; Volume 3: Graphic Art; Text tape. Kassel / Cologne 1959
Web links
- Materials by and about James Brooks in the documenta archive
- James Brooks at artfacts.net
- Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members: James Brooks. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 18, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brooks, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Louis , Missouri |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1992 |
| Place of death | East Hampton , New York |