List of artists from Brooklyn

Ruth Abrams

Marion Greenwood dipping her brush into her palette while painting a mural for the WPA Federal Art Project, 1940

David Salle

Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City. Many artists have originated from Brooklyn or relocated there.

Brooklyn artists

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• Ruth Abrams (1912 – 12 March 1986), a New York School painter who was born in Brooklyn.^[1] As a painter, she belonged to the New York School.^[2] After her death, a critic from The New York Times remarked that she was "a woman unfairly neglected in a macho era."^[3] Her papers are held at the Yeshiva University Museum^[2] and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.^[4]
• Alexander Brook (July 14, 1898 – February 26, 1980) was an American artist and critic who was born in Brooklyn.^[5] During his twenties, Brooks painted still lifes and posed figures with vigor and sensuality. He later began to emulate the style of Jules Pascin.^[6] From 1924-27 he was the assistant director of Whitney Studio Club.^[7] His realist painting was exhibited widely and he won multiple awards.^[6] Georgia Jungle won the Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International art exhibition. Unfortunately for Brook, the realist style fell out of favor late in the 1940s.^[6]
• Marion Greenwood (April 6, 1909 – August 20, 1970) – an artist who had resided in Brooklyn^[8]
• Nell Choate Jones (1879–1981) – an artist who had resided in Brooklyn^[9][10] Jones was awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University of New York in 1972 and received the Distinguished Citizen Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1979. She exhibited regularly across North America in the 1940s and 1950s as well as overseas in France, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Greece, and Japan. Her work can be found in many museums, including the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia.^[11]
• Tim Okamura – a painter based in Brooklyn^[12] Okamura is known for his depiction of African-American and minority subjects in urban settings, and his combination of graffiti and realism. His work has been featured in several major motion pictures and in London's National Portrait Gallery. He was also one of several artists to be shortlisted in 2006 for a proposed portrait of Queen Elizabeth of England.
• Michael Anthony Pegues – an artist and designer, born and raised in Brooklyn.^[13][14] Self-taught, modern-day Fauve, Expressionist as well as Pop artist, contemporary of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, his work is strongly influenced by Hip Hop and Graffiti.
• David Salle – a painter and leading contemporary figurative artist,^[15] Salle helped define postmodern sensibility. His paintings and prints comprise what appear to be randomly juxtaposed images, or images placed on top of one other with deliberately ham-fisted techniques.
• Walter Satterlee (January 18, 1844 – May 28, 1908) was an American figure and genre painter who was born in Brooklyn.^[16] He was a member of the American Water Color Society and of the New York Etching Club, and was an excellent teacher. Satterlee died in Brooklyn in 1908.
• Stephen Shames – a photographer who was living in Brooklyn in 2008^[17]
• Susan Sills ^[18]
• Danny Simmons – an abstract-expressionist painter who was a Brooklyn resident in 2009^[19][20][21] Simmons is the co-founder and Chairman of Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation (since 1995), which provides disadvantaged urban youth with arts access and education.^[22] Simmons also founded Rush Arts Gallery and soon thereafter converted part of his loft in Brooklyn into the Corridor Gallery. Both galleries provide exhibition opportunities to early and mid-career artists who do not have commercial representation through galleries or private dealers.
• Andrea Zittel – an installation artist who has resided in Brooklyn^[23] Zittel produced her first “Living Unit”--an experimental structure intended to reduce everything necessary for living into a simple, compact system—as a means of facilitating basic activities within her 200-square-foot (19 m²) Brooklyn storefront apartment.

See also

• List of people from Brooklyn
• Lists of artists by nationality

References

1. Ruth Abrams: Overlooked Jewish Female Painter Gets Retrospective At Yeshiva University Museum Huffington Post, August 9, 2012
2. "Guide to the Papers of Ruth Abrams (1912-1986), 1934-1986 (bulk 1970s)". Yeshiva University Museum. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
3. Russell, John (1986-07-25). "Art: From Jan Groth, Tapestry and Drawing". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
4. "Ruth Abrams papers, 1934-1983". Archives of American Art. Retrieved 2009-06-11.
5. "Alexander Brook (1898-1980)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
6. Morgan, Ann Lee (2007). The Oxford dictionary of American art and artists. Oxford reference online. Oxford University Press US. pp. 25–26. ISBN 0-19-512878-8.
7. Strickler, Susan E.; Hutton, William (1979). American paintings, the Toledo Museum of Art. The Museum. p. 26.
8. Neely, Jack (June 11, 2014). "The Singing Mural: Marion Greenwood's Long-Concealed Masterwork in a Rare Public Display". METR. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
9. "(untitled)". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. May 24, 1951. p. 25. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
10. "Nell Choate Jones (1879-1981)". New Georgia Encyclopedia. 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2015.
11. James, A. E., Reed, D. V., Adelman, E. M., Four Sisters Gallery., & North Carolina Wesleyan College. (1999). Southern women painters 1880-1940: The collection of A. Everette James, Jr. and Nancy Jane Farmer : the Four Sisters Gallery : celebrating the art of the Coastal Plain : October 21, 1999-February 25, 2000. Rocky Mount, NC: North Carolina Wesleyan College.
12. Estrada, Sheryl (September 10, 2013). "Painter Tim Okamura Offers an Urban Narrative in Two Exhibitions". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
13. "Michael Anthony Pegues". Brooklyn Arts Council. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
14. Prada, Poets Wear (June 12, 2014). "Brooklyn Artist Michael Anthony Pegues Appears on John Bredin's Public Voice Salon". PRLog. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
15. Renzi, Jen (April 17, 2015). "Artist David Salle on Interior Design and $50 Watches". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
16. "WALTER SATTERLEE DIES.; Noted Artist Expires at His Home After a Week's Illness.". May 29, 1908. Retrieved July 13, 2015. Walter Satterlee, the artist, died at his home, 148 East Eighteenth Street, ... He was born in Brooklyn, the son of George C. and Mary Le Roy Livingston Satterlee.
17. "Black Panthers Headed to Seattle". Adweek – Breaking News in Advertising, Media and Technology. March 27, 2008. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
18. "Six Brooklyn artists to exhibit at fifth Contemporary Art Fair NYC". brooklyneagle.com.
19. Dewees, Gayle (July 27, 2009). "Artist-author-chairman: Simmons tapped to be arts council chairman". NY Daily News. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
20. "Senator Montgomery Names Local Artist Danny Simmons to the NYS Council on the Arts Nomination is Approved by the Governor and NYS Senate". New York State Senate. January 21, 2009. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
21. "Artists Among Us: Danny Simmons - The Arts". Artists of the Hamptons. July 19, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2015.
22. Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
23. Cook, Greg (April 8, 2013). "Efficiency Expert: Andrea Zittel Talks About Her Art Of Living". The Artery (NPR). Retrieved July 13, 2015.

Further reading

• "12 Street Artists From Brooklyn Celebrate The DIY Culture Of Berlin". The Huffington Post.
• "Brooklyn Performance Artists To Make Giant Hamster Wheel Their Home". cbslocal.com.
• "Re-Emerging Older Professional Artists from Brooklyn Display Work at Carter Burden Gallery". Bed-Stuy, New York Patch.
• "Artists from Brooklyn and Dallas descend on 500X Gallery near Fair Park". Center Stage.