Bradley Walker Tomlin Original Irascibles NY Abstract Expressionism Lyrical Mix Media Oil Painting

Bradley Walker Tomlin (August 19, 1899 – May 11, 1953), a prominent American artist, belonged to the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionist school of artists. Bradley Tomlin was born in Syracuse, New York, where he was the youngest of four children. Since high school, he wanted to be an artist. Tomlin returned to New York in the fall of 1924. He began exhibiting in 1925 at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1926 Tomlin returned to Europe, where he visited England, Italy, and Switzerland; but he mainly stayed in Paris. He returned to America in July 1927. He also discovered Woodstock, New York where he spent his summers.   

He participated in the famous ‘’Ninth Street Show". According to John I. H. Baur, Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tomlin’s "life and his work were marked by a persistent, restless striving toward perfection, in a truly classical sense of the word, towards that 'inner logic' of form which would produce a total harmony, an unalterable rightness, a sense of miraculous completion…It was only during the last five years of his life that the goal was fully reached, and his art flowered with a sure strength and authority."

Bradley Walker Tomlin was part of a group known as "The Irascible Eighteen"; a group of abstract painters, who protested the Metropolitan Museum of Art's policy towards American painting of the 1940s, and who posed for a famous picture in 1950. Members of the group besides Tomlin included: Hedda Sterne, Willem de Kooning, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Pousette-Dart, William Baziotes, Jimmy Ernst, Jackson Pollock, James Brooks, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Theodoros Stamos, Barnett Newman, and Mark Rothko. 

Tomlin's work matured from approximately 1947 when his work represented neither his earlier cubist or surrealist influences.

Though highly textured, Tomlin's work is more lyrical and less gestural than those of his contemporaries, Pollock or de Kooning.

Bradley Walker Tomlin
(1899-1953)
24"X36", Plus Original Frame
Collage, Oil, and Mixed Media on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
All original condition
No overpaints, or restoration
Very good/excellent condition, No condition issues
Still gallery wrapped on the reverse

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