The following information is from The New York Times.

Painter Traces His Start to World War II Service
By AILEEN JACOBSON
Published: April 30, 2010

During World War II, Stan Brodsky, then a 19-year-old soldier from Brooklyn, was in eastern France when his platoon came upon an Alsatian farmhouse that their commander ordered them to "liberate." Mr. Brodsky, 85, now a prominent artist living in Huntington, recounts the episode, which took place in November 1944, in his new book, The Uncertainty of Experience: An Artist's Journey.

While other soldiers made off with jewelry and silverware, Mr. Brodsky wrote, "I opened an untouched drawer of a small table in the corner of the living room."

Inside, he found a watercolor set, "something I had never owned or been exposed to," though he had shown talent for drawing in pencil and pen. He tucked the set inside his gas mask.

The accidental discovery, Mr. Brodsky said in an interview, changed the direction of his life, touching off "something that was still incubating inside of me, a way of looking at the world."

Without it, he might not have become an artist, or not the artist he is, he said, painting color-infused oils that "have a feeling for the fluidity of nature."

He started using his new set in letters home, which help illustrate his book. In one, the words "To My Dear Parents, Happy Anniversary" float over a village scene featuring a horse-drawn cart. Another depicts a church and thanks his family for packages and "the long-awaited mail."

He used uppercase letters, a style he picked up from Aldo Rubano, a soldier from New York he met in his first barracks who was already an artist, he said. "He had his Army shoes on the floor and he was drawing them, and then he began to print, and I thought to myself, that's a nice way to send letters home," Mr. Brodsky said.

Several of Mr. Brodsky's pen-illustrated letters are in the book, which he said began as a full-blown memoir before he pared down the text to an essay.

Published by the nonprofit Midmarch Arts Press, the 56-page book contains 27 images, from a drawing made at age 10 through oils painted last year, along with three snapshots of Mr. Brodsky in uniform on the back cover.

Online Source:
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Stan Brodsky: Resume

Education
1959, Ed.D., Columbia University

1950, M.F.A., Painting, Iowa University

1949, B.J. Photo-Journalism, Missouri University

Academic Position
1991, Professor Emeritus of Art, former Director of Studio Programs, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Brookville, NY

Public Collections

Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Pensacola Museum of Art, FL.
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
William A. Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME
Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Delaware University, Newark, DE
New York University, New York
Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, NY
AT&T, Chicago, IL
Campbell Mithun Esty, Southfield, MI
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring, NY
Newsday, Melville, NY
Port Authority, World Trade Center, New York
Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
Printmaking Workshop, New York

Source
June Kelly Gallery