Black & White
Catalogue
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.4 × 35.6 cm (10 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- James Brooks
Artist
Printmaking
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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Concord from America: The Third Century
1975 · Screenprint from a portfolio of five lithograph and screenprints, three collotypes, three screenprints, and two lithographs
The Springs from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists
1971 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs
Obsol
1964 · Oil on canvas
Qualm
1954 · Oil on canvas
Untitled
1950 · Brush and black ink and white opaque watercolor with thin wove paper collaged elements on cream wove paper
Untitled
1945 · Graphite with charcoal and brown chalk, and smudging and erasure, with touches of incising on cream wove paper
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- James Brooks
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 25.4 × 35.6 cm (10 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1960-090800
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified