Alexander Brook, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Brook

American artist

Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1898

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 26-Feb-1980

Profession: painter, journalist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Alexander Brook

  • Alexander Brook (July 14, 1898 – February 26, 1980) was an American artist and art critic. Brook was born in Brooklyn, New York.
  • At the age of twelve he was bed-ridden with polio.
  • It was during this time that he received his first lessons in painting.
  • In 1914 he entered the Art Students League, where he studied for four years.
  • There he met the painter Peggy Bacon, whom he married in 1920.
  • Brook also studied at the Pratt Institute.During his twenties, Brooks painted still lifes and posed figures with vigor and sensuality.
  • He later began to emulate the style of Jules Pascin.
  • From 1924-1927 he was the assistant director of the Whitney Studio Club.
  • He also worked as a reviewer for The Arts magazine.
  • His realist painting was exhibited widely and he won multiple awards.
  • Children's Lunch won the Frank G Logan prize at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929 and Georgia Jungle won the Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International art exhibition in 1939.
  • He also received the Temple gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1931 and a gold medal at the Paris International Exhibition in 1937.
  • Unfortunately for Brook, the realist style fell out of favor late in the 1940s.About 1940, he was divorced from Peggy Bacon.
  • After a second marriage to Libby Bergere and spells living in Savannah, Georgia, in 1945 he married his third wife, the painter Gina Knee.
  • In 1948 they moved to Sag Harbor on eastern Long Island, where he retired from painting around 1965.His work can be found at a variety of museum such as the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Albright-Knox Gallery.

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