Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas (Austin)
200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd,
Austin, TX 78712-0338
Austin, TX 78712-0338
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Museums page for James Brooks ((1906 - 1992)), known for Modernist genre to abstraction, collage. Showing 26 museum collections and exhibitions.
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1906 St. Louis, Missouri - 1992 East Hampton, New York. Known for: Modernist genre to abstraction, collage.
A painter of both Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism and part of the so-called New York School, James Brooks did many large-scale paintings that expressed a sense of cosmic space as though a... Read full biography
A painter of both Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism and part of the so-called New York School, James Brooks did many large-scale paintings that expressed a sense of cosmic space as though a high-powered telescope were penetrating space so deeply that one feels the color, the form, and the... Read full biography
A painter of both Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism and part of the so-called New York School, James Brooks did many large-scale paintings that expressed a sense of cosmic space as though a high-powered telescope were penetrating space so deeply that one feels the color, the form, and the surge of movement. He used much black, so that darkness seemed equal to the other colors of his canvases and conveyed a sense of void amongst floating and colliding bright colors. He was born in St.... Read full biography
A painter of both Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism and part of the so-called New York School, James Brooks did many large-scale paintings that expressed a sense of cosmic space as though a high-powered telescope were penetrating space so deeply that one feels the color, the form, and the surge of movement. He used much black, so that darkness seemed equal to the other colors of his canvases and conveyed a sense of void amongst floating and colliding bright colors. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and during his childhood, moved frequently throughout the Southwest. In the mid and late 1920s in Dallas, Texas, he attended Southern Methodist University and the Dallas Art Institute where he studied with Martha Simkins. In 1926, he... Read full biography
A painter of both Social Realism and Abstract Expressionism and part of the so-called New York School, James Brooks did many large-scale paintings that expressed a sense of cosmic space as though a high-powered telescope were penetrating space so deeply that one feels the color, the form, and the surge of movement. He used much black, so that darkness seemed equal to the other colors of his canvases and conveyed a sense of void amongst floating and colliding bright colors. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and during his childhood, moved frequently throughout the Southwest. In the mid and late 1920s in Dallas, Texas, he attended Southern Methodist University and the Dallas Art Institute where he studied with Martha Simkins. In 1926, he moved to New York City and worked as a commercial lettering artist, while taking night classes at the Art Students League from 1927 to 193... Read full biography
James Brooks - Artist Info
About James Brooks: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (26)
All MuseumsButler Institute of American Art
524 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44502Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Columbia Museum of Art
Main At Hampton
Po Box 2068
Columbia, SC 29202Fisher Museum of Art, University of Southern California
823 Exposition Boulevard
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0292Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
The University of Georgia
90 Carlton Street
Athens, GA 30602-6719Meadows Museum, SMU
Smu: 5900 Bishop Boulevard
Po Box 750357 (Bishop Blvd/Binkley) (Bishop Blvd/Binkley) (Bishop Blvd/Binkley)
Dallas, TX 75275-0357Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10028Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11968Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame
100 St. André Way
Notre Dame, IN 46556Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
415 South Street
P.O. Box 9110-Mail Stop 069
Waltham, MA 02454-9110San Diego Museum of Art
Balboa Park, 1450 el Prado
Po 122107
San Diego, CA 92101Sheldon Museum of Art
12th &Amp; R Streets
Lincoln, NE 68588-0300Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128Telfair Museum of Art
Po Box 10081
Savannah, GA 31412The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052The Empire State Plaza Art Collection
Empire State Plaza
Albany, NY 12242The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
118 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102The Speed Art Museum
2035 South 3rd Street
Louisville, KY 40208University of Michigan Museum of Art, UMMA
525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1354Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Ganesvoort Street
New York City, NY 10014Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271