Bradley Walker Tomlin

Bradley Walker Tomlin studied at Syracuse University. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are abstract art and still life. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris, New York City and Syracuse. Employment is recorded with Sarah Lawrence College. Work by Bradley Walker Tomlin is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Phillips Collection and Whitney Museum of American Art.

• Name — Bradley Walker Tomlin • Born — 19 August 1899 • Birthplace — Syracuse, NY • Died — 11 May 1953 • Place of death — St. Vincent’s Hospital, New York City • Occupation — Abstract expressionist painter.

Born in Syracuse, New York, Tomlin was the youngest of four children. Beginning in high school he wanted to be an artist. His art teachers were Cornelia Moses, a former pupil of Arthur Wesley Dow, Hugo Gari Wagner for modeling, and Frank London, his mentor and teacher. Tomlin attended Syracuse University, College of Fine Arts, New York from 1917-1921, studying under Dr. Jeannette Scott and Professor Carl T. Hawley. He then attended Académie Colarossi and the Grande Chaumiѐre, in Paris from 1923–1924. Tomlin returned to New York in the late 1924. In 1925, he began exhibiting at the Whitney Studio Club. Later in 1926, Tomlin returned to Europe, visiting England, Italy and Switzerland, though staying mainly in Paris. He returned to the United States in July 1927. He also discovered Woodstock, New York where he spent his summers. During the depression Tomlin worked in teaching positions at Sarah Lawrence College from 1932 - 1941, at Buckley School from 1932–1933, and at Dalton School from 1933–1934. On Sunday, May 10, 1953, Tomlin drove with his friends to a party at the Jackson Pollocks’ house on Long Island, from which he returned about midnight, feeling ill. The following day, he was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital where he suffered a heart attack and died at seven that night. Bradley Walker Tomlin died at the age of fifty-three.

• 1922: Skaneatele and Cazenovia, NY (watercolors) • 1925: Anderson Galleries, NY (watercolors) • 1926, 1927: Montross Gallery, NY • 1931, 1944: Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, NY • 1950, 1953: Betty Parsons Gallery, NY • 1955: Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C. • 1957: “Bradley Walker Tomlin,” circ. Exhibition organized by the Art Galleries of the University of California, Los Angeles, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art’’ • 2016: "Bradley Walker Tomlin: A Retrospective", Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, August 31 – December 11, 2016, State University of New York at New Paltz

• 1949, 1951: University of Illinois • 1951: 9th Street Art Exhibition, NYC • 1951: “Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America,” Museum of Modern Art New York; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN • 1952: “Fifteen Americans,” Museum of Modern Art, New York; • 1953: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; “Second Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Stable Gallery,” NYC • 1954-1955: “The New Decade,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC • 1955: Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, France • 1969: “New American Painting and Sculpture,” Museum of Modern Art, New York • 2017: "Abstract Expressionnism", Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Feb. - June 2017