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Gandy Brodie | |
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| Born | (1924-05-20)May 20, 1924 Brooklyn, New York |
| Died | October 22, 1975(1975-10-22) (aged 51) |
| Alma mater | Self-taught |
| Known for | Painting |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
Gandy Brodie (May 20, 1924 - October 22, 1975) was an American painter working primarily in New York City and Townshend, Vermont during the middle part of the 20th century.[1] He had ties to Abstract Expressionism through artists such as Willem de Kooning and his style, though singular, was considered second-generation Abstract Expressionism.[2] His paintings were influenced by the works of artists such as Camille Corot, Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Piet Mondrian, Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, Pablo Picasso, and Paul Klee. Shane Brody, his only child, is a jazz and Americana guitarist who resides in Underhill, Vermont.
Contents
1 Personal life
2 Career
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
Personal life
Gabriel Solomon Brodie was born May 20, 1924 in Brooklyn, New York to a family of Romanian Jewish produce vendors.[3] Brodie lived and worked in and around New York City throughout his life, while also spending extensive time in Florence, Italy, Provincetown, Massachusetts, and West Townshend, Vermont.[4] He and his wife, Jocelyn Brodie,[5] and are remembered for their establishment of The Gandy Brodie School of Art in Newfane, Vermont.
Career
Brodie started out as a self-taught painter, arriving at painting only after studying dance with Martha Graham and delving into the world of jazz and bebop. Once he discovered painting, he dedicated himself to learning from fellow artists and from works he could access in the museums of New York. After a time, he studied with Hans Hofmann and with the art historian, Meyer Schapiro, who praised Brodie as “one of the best painters of his generation.”
He was the winner of many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship,[6] a National Council for The Arts Award, a Longview Foundation Purchase Grant, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Mark Twain Art award, and numerous residencies at colleges and universities nationwide. In addition, Brodie taught at Carnegie-Mellon University, The University of Pennsylvania and Elmira College, in Elmira New York, where he was a Fine Arts Instructor at the time of his death.
Brodie’s work is characterized by dense layers of paint, or drawn marks, culminating in an abstract, yet vivid encapsulation of everyday objects such as a flower in a can, a tree in the park, a sea gull over the ocean, or a tenement in New York. He was known for painting and drawing certain subjects repeatedly throughout his relatively short career. The subjects are often, at first glance, indiscernible from thick paint or charcoal marks; however, his reoccurring motifs become more recognizable once viewed in relation to his other works.
Brodie died on October 22, 1975 at the age of 51.[3] A memorial for Brodie was held at The New School for Social Research, in New York City. Among the speakers were Meyer Shapiro and Elaine de Kooning. After his death, exhibitions of Brodie's art continued to be shown at the Sidney Janis, Knoedler, Edward Thorpe, and Salander - O'Rielly galleries. Brodie's work is currently represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Project, New York. Brodie’s paintings and drawings can be found in Museum collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection.
Notes
^ "Summary of the Gandy Brodie papers". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1954–1983. Retrieved July 10, 2014..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ Yau, John (June 17, 2012). "A Wonderer Among the Rubble (Part 1)". Hyperallergic.com. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
^ ab "Family History". Gandy Brodie archives. Shane Brodie. Burlington VT.
^ Seckler, Dorothy (1965). "Oral history interview with Gandy Brodie, 1965 Sept. 6". Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
^ "Jocelyn Brodie Papers". Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard, University. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
^ "John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation list of Fellows". Retrieved July 10, 2014.
References
Glueck, Grace (June 23, 2000). "ART IN REVIEW; Gandy Brodie". The New York Times. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
Kramer, Hilton (January 18, 1999). "Elaine de Kooning's Ode to a Vanished New York". The New York Observer. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
Golden, Thelma (1998). Bob Thompson. University of California Press. p. 38.
Rosenquist, James; Dalton, David (Oct 27, 2009). Painting Below Zero. Random House LLC. p. 21.
Ashton, Dore (October 1983). "Thinking about Gandy Brodie". Arts Magazine.
Ulanov, Barry (1965). The Two Worlds of American Art: the Private and the Popular. New York: MacMillan.
External links
- John Yau "A Wonderer Among the Rubble (Part 1)" Hyperallergic.com, June 17, 2012
- John Yau, "A Wonderer Among The Rubble (Part 2), Hyperallergic.com, June 24, 2012.
- Samet, Beer With A Painter: Pat de Groot, Hyperallergic.com, Sept 7, 2013
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