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James BrooksCapacon Large Vertical Abstract Painting with Black, Blue and White1979
1979
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Signed on the lower right side. It has the original strip frame from the Museum exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art 1983. Illustrated in the catalog, page 35 illustration #40
Some of the Museum Collections he is included in:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fordham University, Bronx, New York
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Fine Art, Florida
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign, Illinois
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln, Nebraska
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Rockefeller University, New York
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Tate Gallery, London, England
Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Georgia
University of California, Berkeley
University of Houston, Texas
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Texas, Michener Collection, Austin
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
- Creator:James Brooks (1906-1992, American)
- Creation Year:1979
- Dimensions:Height: 60 in (152.4 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
- More Editions & Sizes:nonePrice: $48,000
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- Condition:available for pick up or delivery within 20 miles of either of our locations.
- Gallery Location:Brookville, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU163528892912
James Brooks
A painter of both Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism and part of the New York School, James Brooks did many large-scale paintings that expressed a sense of cosmic space as though a high-powered telescope were penetrating space so deeply that one feels the color, the form and the surge of movement. He used much black, so that darkness seemed equal to the other colors of his canvases and conveyed a sense of void amongst floating and colliding bright colors.
In 1926, Brooks moved to New York City and worked as a commercial lettering artist, while taking night classes at the Art Students League from 1927 to 1930. From 1931 to 1934, he traveled and painted in the American West and Southwest, painting in a Social Realist style.
Between 1936 and 1942, he worked on murals for the WPA Federal Art Project including ones for Queensborough Public Library, Woodside Branch Library, and LaGuardia Airport. The LaGuardia mural called Flight, later destroyed, was especially impressive and huge — 12 feet by 235 feet. Brooks served in North Africa as an army artist during World War II, and the end of this service also marked the end of his painting in realistic styles.
In 1949, having observed Jackson Pollock's drip style, Brooks experimented with pouring pigment on the back of un-sized canvas, and became much lauded for his achieving of balance between spontaneity and control. In 1953, he abandoned that technique for much more densely packed, tightly controlled structure resembling Cubism. In the early 1960s, he added linear calligraphy to his painting.
From 1947 to 1975, Brooks taught at various colleges and universities including Pratt Institute, Columbia University, and Cooper Union in New York City, the Art Center in Miami, Yale University, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1963, he was an artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome and in 1967 had a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Brooks died in East Hampton, New York, in 1992, having suffered from Alzheimer's disease beginning 1985.
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