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 murals.

Life

James Brooks studied 1923-1925 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In 1926 he moved to New York. He continued his studies from 1927 to 1930 continued at the Art Students League.

James Brooks was in New York a friend and neighbor of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner on Eastern Long Iceland. In 1947, he married the artist Charlotte Park.

Brooks began with the exhibition of his paintings, which emerged only 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 associated with the lyrical expressionism.

James Brooks had his first solo exhibition in 1949 in the Peridot Gallery in New York. In 1959, Brooks has participated in documenta 2 in Kassel. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions worldwide. Retrospectives of his art found (among others) in 1963 held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and in 1972 in the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

Works in museums and collections

  • Brooklyn Museum New York
  • Detroit Institute of Arts
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art in New York
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, 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
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