About Daniel Brinley

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    A painter whose landscape and genre paintings reflected his childhood near Cos Cob, Connecticut, Daniel Brinley remained active in his native state where he was one of the key figures of the Silvermine Guild of Artists. His childhood home was at Riverside, just across the Mianus River from Cos Cob. For much of his life, he was closely associated with modernists, but his style was a combination of Realism and Modernism. He was much influenced by the Armory Show of 1912, when avant-garde art from Europe was introduced in the United States. From that time, the color of his paintings was intensified, forms flattened, and compositions were tighter.

    He studied at the Art Students League from 1900 to 1902 with John Twachtman, Brys...

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