Medium: Mixed Media On Paper
Painting Size: 10" x 12"
Frame Size: 15" x 17"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Age: Dated 1956
Condition: Great Condition

James Brooks (1906 - 1992)

James Brooks was born in 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied at the Dallas Art Institute from 1925 to 1926 and the Art Students League from 1927 to 1931. During the 1930s he worked with the Federal Arts Project in a style of vigorous and monumental realism. During the 1940s his style matured in the direction of abstraction and he was prominent among the abstract expressionists in the 1950s. He had a retrospective exhibition circulating from the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Brooks was a tidy man with a soft self-assured way of speaking. He was far more concerned with shapes than with colors. He spent three years as a United States Army combat artist in World War II in the Near East. He had been a commercial artist.muralist and teacher of lettering. He got swept into the new cult of abstract expressionism that was rocking the world in the postwar years. His abstractions were linear affairs, filled with curvy arabesques and occasional dribble, like those of his friend Jackson Pollock. He tried titling them by number, then by letter and then put nonsense syllables together to make names.

Brooks died in Brookhaven, Long Island, New York in 1992 at the age of eighty-five.



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Great overall condition.