Biografie von Robert BRACKMAN (1898-1980)

Birth place: Odessa, Russia

Death place: Noank, CT

Addresses: Noank, CT, early 1930s

Profession: Painter, educator

Studied: Francisco Ferrer School; NAD with George Bellows & Robert Henri; California

Exhibited: Allied AA; PAFA, 1926-27, 1929, 1933, 1935-38, 1941, 1943-44, 1958; AIC; CAFA, 1920 (prize), 1932 (prize), 1936 (prize); Corcoran Gal, 1928-53; S.Indp.A.; NAD, 1932 (prize), 1940 (prize), 1960 (Adolph & Clara Obrig Prize, 135th Ann. Exhib.), 1965 (Andrew Carnegie Prize), 1966 (gold med. of honor); Salons of Am.; Audubon Artists, 1960 (N. Grumbacher Purchase Prize)

Member: NA, 1940; Allied AA; Mystic SA; CAFA; Wilmington SA; Royal Soc Arts, London, England; NAD; AWCS; Audubon Artists; Int. Soc. Arts & Letters.

Work: RISD; Brooklyn Mus.; Beach Collection, Storrs, CT; New Haven PCC; Honolulu Acad. Arts; MMA; Newark Mus.; High Mus., Atlanta; Addison Gal., Andover, MA; Brooklyn Acad. Arts & Sciences; Minneapolis Inst. Art; Rockford AA; Norton Art Gal.; Houston Mus. FA; IBM; Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection; Yale Univ.; Princeton Univ.; Pentagon; Brooks Mem. Art Gal.; WMAA; Colonial Williamsburg; West Point Acad. Collection; plus other art museums in the U.S. Commissions: portraits of Gen. Charles Lindbergh, Mr. & Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, John Foster Dulles, Gen. Nathan F. Twining & many others.

Comments: Came to the U.S. in 1908. Primarily a painter of portraits and figures, he received many important portrait commissions. Teaching: ASL, 1934-1975; American Art School, NYC; Brooklyn Mus. Sch.; Lyme Academy; Madison Art Sch., Conn.

Sources: WW73; Art in Conn.: Between World Wars