| Alexander Brook trained at the Art Students League in New York between 1914 and 1918, where he had the opportunity to work with the artists who laid the foundations of American Realism: Niles Spencer, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hayes Miller and Peggy Bacon (whom Brook later married). This exhibition will focus on the drawings Brook executed from the late 1920s on, when he spent much of his time investigating the human figure. His depictions of women disrobing, or simply standing, are beautiful studies of the shadow and textures of the human form. Many later drawings were inspired by the trip Brook made with his third wife to Europe, where he studied the works of Picasso, Goya and Zurbaran. Many of his studies have an introspective quality that borders on the romantic. |
