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1925 New York City - 1975 New York City. Known for: Modernist still life, abstraction, and portrait painting, teaching.
Gandy Brodie was born in New York City on October 20, 1925 on the lower east side, and was essentially a self-taught artist. He was inspired to paint after seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night , Picasso... Read full biography
Gandy Brodie was born in New York City on October 20, 1925 on the lower east side, and was essentially a self-taught artist. He was inspired to paint after seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night , Picasso and Klee at the Museum of Modern Art, all had a influence on his singular "expressionist " style. It's... Read full biography
Gandy Brodie was born in New York City on October 20, 1925 on the lower east side, and was essentially a self-taught artist. He was inspired to paint after seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night , Picasso and Klee at the Museum of Modern Art, all had a influence on his singular "expressionist " style. It's interesting to note that artists such as Willen de Kooning and Hans Hoffman had paintings of Brodie's in their personal collections, as do the permanent collections of the Phillips Collection,... Read full biography
Gandy Brodie was born in New York City on October 20, 1925 on the lower east side, and was essentially a self-taught artist. He was inspired to paint after seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night , Picasso and Klee at the Museum of Modern Art, all had a influence on his singular "expressionist " style. It's interesting to note that artists such as Willen de Kooning and Hans Hoffman had paintings of Brodie's in their personal collections, as do the permanent collections of the Phillips Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Brodie rose to prominence in the mid-1950's after exhibiting at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1954, Annual. He painted and taught in Vermont and in New York... Read full biography
Gandy Brodie was born in New York City on October 20, 1925 on the lower east side, and was essentially a self-taught artist. He was inspired to paint after seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night , Picasso and Klee at the Museum of Modern Art, all had a influence on his singular "expressionist " style. It's interesting to note that artists such as Willen de Kooning and Hans Hoffman had paintings of Brodie's in their personal collections, as do the permanent collections of the Phillips Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Brodie rose to prominence in the mid-1950's after exhibiting at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1954, Annual. He painted and taught in Vermont and in New York City. The signature work of Brodie is his use of heavy impasto in oil paintings. After a full but sho... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Impasto, Heavy Paint
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
- •New York School/Abstract Expressionism
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- •France After 1900
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •Provincetown, Massachusetts
- •Spain and/or Portugal
Art Teacher
- •Hans Hofmann
- •Meyer Schapiro
Art School
- •Columbia University Art Department, Student
- •Hans Hofmann School of Art, Student
- •New School For Social Research, (The New School), Student
Awards/Recognition
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
Exhibition of Museum
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum/Museum of Non Objective Painting
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts