Brooks Anderson was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1957. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State University in Northridge, studying with established artists of the Los Angeles art scene: including Saul Bernstein, Watson Cross, Walter Gabrielson, Marvin Hardin, Joyce Treiman, Hans Burkhardt, and Ernest Velardi. He studied in Maine with William Holst, a student of Hans Hofmann. His work is found in numerous collections, including the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, and is included in the seminal book, Spirit of Place: Contemporary American Realism in the Landscape Tradition. In 1996-97 Brooks lived in the south of France, completing fifty paintings of the region. Currently living in northern California, he devotes himself full time to producing invocative landscape and seascape paintings.
SELECTED PUBLICATION
Allen, Scott Douglas. Arts magazine. April 1986. Feature article
Arthur, John. Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition.
Hagerty, Donald. Canyon de Chelly: 100 Years of Painting and Photography.
Weeden, Leslie. Diversion magazine. August 1989.
Willard, Christopher."Daring Paintings - Daring Methods." American Artist magazine. February 2006. Feature article.
Wolff, Theodore. The Christian Science Monitor. "Taking Serenity Seriosly." Feature article.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Arches Gallery, Healdsburg, CA
2007 Sweeney Art and Design, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
2007 Wendt Gallery, “Bay Area Influence”
Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Marc Whitney Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Sense Fine Art, Menlo Park, CA
2005 The Seavest Collection of Contemporary
Realism, Neuberger Museum of Art,
Purchase, NY
2003 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Van Kampen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2000 Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 Green Woods and Crystal Waters:
The American Landscape Tradition
The Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, Oklahoma
National tour including two additional museums
1998 I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
1998 Resource for Art, San Francisco, CA
1998 David Findlay, Jr., Fine Art, New York, NY
1995 Mulligan-Shanoski Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Chris Winfield Gallery, Carmel, CA
1994 Gilcrease Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
1994 Eiteljorg Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1994 Susan Broden Gallery, Madison, WI
1993 Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Frick Gallery, Belfast, ME
1993 Runnings Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1988 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
1988 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI
1987 Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
1986 Orlando Museum of Art at Loch Haven, FL
1986 Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
1986 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
City Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1984 David Findlay, Jr., Fine Art, New York, NY
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000 Van Kampen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1995 Sallie Bell Kelly, Tiburon, CA
1995 Pangaea, Pt. Arena, CA
1992 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NY
1990 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NY
1988 New York Stock Exchange Building, NY
1988 Schmidt-Bingham Gallery, NY
1984 Bolen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Arden Wood, San Francisco, CA
Lancaster Capital, Tampa Bay, FL
Seavest Collection, New York, NY
MUSEUM COLLECTION
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
AT&T, New York, NY
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Citibank, New York, NY
Citibank, San Francisco, CA
Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, New York, NY
Desmond & Marcello, Marina Del Rey, CA
E.F. Hutton and Company, Inc., New York, NY
Financial Security Assurance Company, New York, NY
General Electric, New York, NY
Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, Tokyo, Japan
Huntington Bank, OH
IDS Financial Services, Minneapolis, MN
Massachusetts Financial Corporation, Boston, MA
James McEntee, INC., New York, NY
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, Inc., New York, NY
Nomura Securities, New York, NY
Reliance National Risk Specialists, New York, NY
Showa Lease, New York, NY
Tambrands Corporation, Lake Success, NY
Tudor Investment Group, New York, NY
U.S. West, Denver, CO
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