Bradley walker tomlin biography meaning

Notes on Bradley Walker Tomlin

by Gary Comenas

Bradley Walker Tomlin was the youngest of four children born to Charles H.

and Matilda Arnelia (Hollier) Tomlin. Bradley showed early promise as an artist, receiving encouragement from his art teacher at Central High School in Syracuse, Cornelia Moses who had studied under Arthur Wesley Dow. In 1921 he graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Painting degree and received a Hiram Gee Fellowship award of $500 for a year's study abroad.

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Born in Syracuse, New York, Bradley Walker Tomlin was a painter whose signature work combined Abstract Expressionism with his early interest in Cubism.

The stated rationale of this exhibition is to bring home to the Hudson Valley the Syracuse-born artist who lived in New York and chose to have a place in.

Tomlin distributed his nonobjective imagery evenly on the canvas, depriving the work of a traditional focal point and creating a staccato rhythm and allover.

Tomlin's paintings are about the closest approach to eye-music that we have yet achieved here in America and to hear one at a time – I mean, see one at a time –.

He moved to New York the same year where he designed covers for the Condé Nast magazines, House & Garden and Vogue from 1922 - 1929. In the autumn of 1923 he took a year off to visit Europe, living at 81 Place du Pantheon in Paris and studying at the Académie Colarossi and the Grande Chaumière.

He would return to Europe several times during the late 20s/30s. (BT56-57)

In the mid-1920s he discovered Woodstock, New York and visited there regularly during the summ