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Thomas Brownell Eldred Art

American, 1903-1993

Thomas Brownell Eldred studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago under John Norton and later at the Art Students League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Pène DuBois. Between 1933–38, Eldred taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School under the Works Progress Administration Art Program. He traveled to Paris and studied with Stanley William Hayter in his influential workshop, Atelier 17, along with Marc Chagall, Joan Miró i Ferrà and Roberto Matta. In 1940, Hayter opened a school in New York where Eldred joined him again, along with artists Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson and Paul Jackson Pollock. Eldred exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Centre in New York, among many others. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Guggenheim, Indianapolis Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Artist: Thomas Brownell Eldred
Unique signed Mid Century Modern Abstract painting by renowned American painter
By Thomas Brownell Eldred
Located in New York, NY
THOMAS BROWNELL ELDRED Untitled Mid Century Modern Abstraction, 1941 Gouache on paper Hand signed and dated 1941 on the front 14 3/4 × 21 inches Unique Provenance: Acquired from the estate of Thomas Brownell Eldred Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee from Alpha 137 Gallery Unframed This gorgeously colored gouache painting on thick paper was created at a time when the Guggenheim Museum (Museum of Non-Objective Painting) was collecting Eldred's work, alongside works by Kandinsky and Bauer. Unique works like this by Eldred are very desirable in the marketplace. It typifies the artist's eclectic style, reflecting his involvement with Surrealism and the New York School. It also highlights Eldred’s excellent draftsmanship through the characteristic bright colors and patterns that he developed during his time as a naval wood pattern maker in the merchant marines...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Thomas Brownell Eldred Art

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