Bradley Walker Tomlin

Bradley Walker Tomlin ( born August 19, 1899 in Syracuse, New York ( USA), † May 11, 1953 in New York City ) was an American painter. He was one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism.

Life

Tomlin was interested in early for artistic activity. He was already 14 years old a scholarship for sculpture. From 1917 to 1921 he studied painting at Syracuse University. After graduating, he moved to New York and worked for a time as an illustrator of magazines.

In 1923, he and a friend went to Paris where he studied at the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere. After his return to New York in 1924, he continued the work as an illustrator ( He designed, among other things covers for "Vogue" and House and Garden magazines) gone, but turned parallel to his painting from. He had his first solo exhibition in 1926 at the Whitney Studio Club, where he exhibited until 1929. During this time he traveled to Europe.

1929 bought the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts is the first museum a painting by Tomlin. During the Depression, he played an additional livelihood from 1932 to 1941 as a teacher at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.

From 1939 to 1944 Bradley Walker Tomlin's painting was influenced by Cubism. In 1945, Tomlin made ​​the acquaintance of Adolph Gottlieb, who brought him together with Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. This encounter strong impact on him, he began to paint abstract, but still retained a special, unique style. He combined elements of both action and landscape painting in his work.

Bradley Walker Tomlin lived and worked in New York City.

Some of his works have been exhibited posthumously at the documenta 2 in Kassel in 1959.

Works in museums and collections

• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
• Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• Munson -Williams - Proctor Institute Utica, New York