James Brooks

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James Brooks was an American abstract painter associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement.

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James Brooks canonical 3

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instanceOf Abstract Expressionist artist
abstract painter
human
painter
associatedWith New York School
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts grant
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt Art Students League of New York
Dallas Art Institute
Southern Methodist University
employer Works Progress Administration
fieldOfWork painting
genre abstract art
hasWorkInCollection Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
influenced postwar American abstract painters
influencedBy Arshile Gorky
European modernism
Jackson Pollock
livedIn Brooklyn, New York
linked to: Brooklyn

Springs, East Hampton, New York
militaryBranch United States Army Air Forces
movement Abstract Expressionism
notableFor gestural brushwork
integration of calligraphic forms
large-scale abstract paintings
notableWork Booster
Iliad
linked to: Homer's Iliad

Summer
occupation painter
participantIn World War II
placeOfBirth St. Louis, Missouri, United States
placeOfDeath East Hampton, New York, United States
spouse Charlotte Park
style gestural abstraction
lyrical abstraction
taughtAt Columbia University
Cooper Union
Pratt Institute
Yale University
usedMaterial acrylic paint
canvas
oil paint
workLocation East Hampton, New York
New York City

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Green River Cemetery hasBurial James Brooks
Marine Air Terminal hasMuralArtist James Brooks
Jimmy Brooks fullName James Brooks