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James Brooks

James Brooks

?–1992

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9

Institutional Exhibitions

11

Works in Collection

24

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8

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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969

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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969

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Art Lending Service Retrospective

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1960

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The New American Painting as Shown in Eight European Countries 1958�1959

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1959

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Recent American Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957

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James Brooks was an American abstract painter associated with postwar Color Field painting. Working primarily in oil on canvas, he developed a distinctive approach to gestural abstraction that emphasized luminous color relationships and spontaneous mark-making. His practice evolved through the 1950s and 1960s as he refined a visual vocabulary of organic, flowing forms set against expansive grounds. Brooks' work remains central to mid-century American abstraction.

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Artworks (11)

Concord from America: The Third Century

Concord from America: The Third Century

1975 · Screenprint from a portfolio of five lithograph and screenprints, three collotypes, three screenprints, and two lithographs

composition (irreg.): 28 1/4 x 20 5/8" (71.8 x 52.4cm); sheet: 30 x 22 1/8" (76.2 x 56.2cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Springs from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists

The Springs from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists

1971 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition and sheet: 29 15/16 x 21 15/16" (76 x 55.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Obsol

1964 · Oil on canvas

6' 8" x 6' 2" (203.2 x 188 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1963 · Oil on canvas

35 × 36 in. (88.9 × 91.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Number 4 - 1960

1960 · Oil paint on paper

21 in. × 14 15/16 in. (53.3 × 37.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1957 · Oil on canvas

84 7/8 × 66 1/8 in. (215.6 × 168 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Qualm

1954 · Oil on canvas

61 x 57 1/8" (154.9 x 144.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Number 1

1953 · Opaque watercolor and crayon on paper, mounted on board

22 5/8 × 28 3/4 in. (57.5 × 73 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Copper Mine, Butte (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Copper Mine, Butte (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

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