Gift of Longview Foundation Inc., in memory of Audrey Stern Hess, 1975
Catalogue
- Year
- 1963
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35 × 36 in. (88.9 × 91.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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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Obsol
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1954 · Oil on canvas
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- James Brooks
- Year
- 1963
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 35 × 36 in. (88.9 × 91.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1963-322462
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified



