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James Brooks (painter)

Index James Brooks (painter)

James Brooks (October 18, 1906 – March 9, 1992) was an American muralist, abstract painter, and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. [1]

52 relations: Abstract art, Abstract expressionism, Abstract Imagists, Action painting, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, Art Students League of New York, Brookhaven, New York, Calligraphy, Carter Ratcliff, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Courtauld Institute of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, East Hampton (town), New York, Edward Pramuk, Federal Art Project, Greenwich Village, Harvard Art Museums, Honolulu Museum of Art, Hurricane Carol, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Inscape (visual art), Irving Sandler, Jackson Pollock, LaGuardia Airport, Lee Krasner, Little Falls, New Jersey, Logan Medal of the Arts, Lyrical abstraction, Marine Air Terminal, Miami Beach, Florida, Montauk, New York, Mural, Museum of Modern Art, New Haven, Connecticut, Oil paint, Painting, Port authority, Pratt Institute, Queens College, City University of New York, Sarasota, Florida, Sheldon Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Southern Methodist University, Springs, New York, St. Louis, Tate, University of Pennsylvania, Walker Art Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, ..., Yale University, 9th Street Art Exhibition. Expand index (2 more) »

Abstract art

Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.

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Abstract Imagists

Abstract Imagists is a term derived from a 1961 exhibition in the Guggenheim Museum, New York called American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists. This exhibition was the first in the series of programs for the investigation of tendencies in American and European painting and sculpture.

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Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.

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Anita Shapolsky Gallery

The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is an art gallery that was founded in 1982.

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Art Students League of New York

The Art Students League of New York is an art school located on West 57th Street in Manhattan, New York City, New York.

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Brookhaven, New York

The Town of Brookhaven is the most populous of the ten towns of Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Calligraphy

Calligraphy (from Greek: καλλιγραφία) is a visual art related to writing.

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Carter Ratcliff

Carter Ratcliff (born 1941 in Seattle, Washington) is an American art critic, writer and poet.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly known as Cooper Union or The Cooper Union and informally referred to, especially during the 19th century, as "the Cooper Institute", is a private college at Cooper Square on the border of the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Courtauld Institute of Art

The Courtauld Institute of Art, commonly referred to as The Courtauld, is a self-governing college of the University of London specialising in the study of the history of art and conservation.

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Dallas Museum of Art

The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St.

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East Hampton (town), New York

The Town of East Hampton is located in southeastern Suffolk County, New York, at the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.

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Edward Pramuk

Edward Pramuk (born 1936) is an abstract expressionist painter.

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Federal Art Project

The Federal Art Project (1935–43) was a New Deal program to fund the visual arts in the United States.

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Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village often referred to by locals as simply "the Village", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

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Harvard Art Museums

The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985) and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (founded in 1958), the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art (founded in 2002), the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies (founded in 1928).

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Honolulu Museum of Art

The Honolulu Museum of Art (formerly the Honolulu Academy of Arts) is an art museum in Honolulu, Hawaiokinai.

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Hurricane Carol

Hurricane Carol was among the worst tropical cyclones on record to affect the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island in the United States.

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Indianapolis Museum of Art

The Indianapolis Museum of Art (known colloquially as the IMA) is an encyclopedic art museum located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

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Inscape (visual art)

Inscape, in visual art, is a term especially associated with certain works of Chilean artist Roberto Matta, but it is also used in other senses within the visual arts.

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Irving Sandler

Irving Sandler (July 22, 1925 – June 2, 2018) was an American art critic, art historian, and educator.

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Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement.

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LaGuardia Airport

LaGuardia Airport is an airport in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens in the United States.

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Lee Krasner

Lenore "Lee" Krasner (October 27, 1908 – June 19, 1984) was an American abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th century.

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Little Falls, New Jersey

Little Falls is a township in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Logan Medal of the Arts

The Logan Medal of the Arts was an arts prize initiated in 1907 and associated with the Art Institute of Chicago, the Frank G Logan family and the Society for Sanity in Art.

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Lyrical abstraction

Lyrical abstraction is either of two related but distinct trends in Post-war Modernist painting: European Abstraction Lyrique born in Paris, the French art critic Jean José Marchand being credited with coining its name in 1947, considered as a component of (Tachisme) when the name of this movement was coined in 1951 by Pierre Guéguen and Charles Estienne the author of L'Art à Paris 1945–1966, and American Lyrical Abstraction a movement described by Larry Aldrich (the founder of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield Connecticut) in 1969.

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Marine Air Terminal

The Marine Air Terminal ("Terminal A"), located at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, is the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States, a.k.a. the "Golden age of the flying boat." Originally built to handle seaplanes, the Marine Air Terminal, an Art Deco building designed in 1939 by William Delano of the firm Delano & Aldrich, consists of a central circular core of two stories with an attic, from which a rectangular entrance pavilion and two symmetrically opposed one-story wings project.

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Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Montauk, New York

Montauk is a census-designated place (CDP) that includes the hamlet with the same name located in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.

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Mural

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surface.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Oil paint

Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil.

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Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (support base).

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Port authority

In Canada and the United States, port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.

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Pratt Institute

Pratt Institute is a private, nonsectarian, non-profit institution of higher learning located in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, United States, with a satellite campus located at 14th Street in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York (Pratt MWP).

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Queens College, City University of New York

Queens College (QC) is one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system.

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Sarasota, Florida

Sarasota is a city in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Sheldon Museum of Art

The Sheldon Museum of Art is an art museum in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Southern Methodist University

Southern Methodist University (commonly referred to as SMU) is a private research university in metropolitan Dallas, with its main campus spanning portions of the town of Highland Park and the cities of University Park and Dallas.

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Springs, New York

Springs is a census-designated place (CDP) roughly corresponding to the hamlet by the same name in the Town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York on the South Fork of Long Island.

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St. Louis

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Tate

Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art – known informally as the "Whitney" – is an art museum located in Manhattan.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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9th Street Art Exhibition

The 9th Street Art Exhibition, otherwise known as the 9th St.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Brooks_(painter)

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