George Brant Bridgman
George Brant Bridgman (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years.
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George Brant Bridgman
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- Name
- George Bridgman
- Born
- 5 November 1864
- Birthplace
- United Province of Canada
- Died
- 16 December 1943
- Place of death
- New York City, United States
- Field
- Painter, art educator, draftsman
- Training
- École des Beaux-Arts
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter · teacher · writer
- Fields
- painting
- Teachers
- Jean-Léon Gérôme
- Languages
- English
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George Brant Bridgman (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years.
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George Brant Bridgman (1864–1943) was an American painter, teacher and writer. Born in Province of Canada, the painter died in New Rochelle.
George Brant Bridgman studied at École des Beaux-Arts. The painter was a member of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. George Brant Bridgman was active in painting.
Languages used include English. Works by the painter are held at Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
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George Brant Bridgman studied at École des Beaux-Arts. Training under Jean-Léon Gérôme is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by George Brant Bridgman is recorded in the collections of Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
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Key facts
• Name — George Bridgman • Born — 5 November 1864 • Birthplace — United Province of Canada • Died — 16 December 1943 • Place of death — New York City, United States • Field — Painter, art educator, draftsman • Training — École des Beaux-Arts
Life and work
Life and work
Bridgman was born in 1864 in the United Province of Canada. In his youth, Bridgman studied the arts under painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and later with Gustave Boulanger. For most of his life Bridgman lived in the United States where he taught anatomy and figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York (from 1898 until 1900, and then 1903 until October 1943). His successor at Art Students League was Robert Beverly Hale. Bridgman had also taught classes at the Grand Central School of Art and at the American Bank Note Company. Bridgman used box forms to represent the major masses of the figure (head, thorax, and pelvis) which he would tie together with gestural lines and produce to create "wedges" or simplified interconnecting forms of the body. He had been a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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New Rochelle.
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Notable students
Among his many thousands of students was Norman Rockwell; in his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator (1960), Rockwell spoke highly of Bridgman. Roughly 70,000 students studied with Bridgman in his many years of teaching, notable artists include: McClelland Barclay, Emily Newton Barto, C. C. Beall, Gifford Beal, Elizabeth Cady Stanton Blake, Rosina Cox Boardman, Bessie Callender, Dane Chanase, Richard V. Culter, Chon Day, Joseph Delaney, Elsie Driggs, Eyre de Lanux, Helen Winslow Durkee, Will Eisner, Edward McNeil Farmer, Elias Goldberg, Marion Greenwood, Robert Beverly Hale, Lorenzo Homar, Clark Hulings, Louis Paul Jonas, Jack Kamen, Deane Keller, Lee Krasner, Richard Lahey, Andrew Loomis, Anita Malfatti, Paul Manship, Frank McCarthy, Evelyn Metzger, Earl Moran, John Cullen Murphy, Kimon Nicolaïdes, Corrado Parducci, Norman Raeben, Frank J. Reilly, Joseph Emile Renier, Ulysses Ricci, Ernie Schroeder, Archie Boyd Teater, Allie Tennant, John Vassos, Franklin Brooke Voss, Edmund Ward, Mahonri Young, and William Zorach. Jackson Pollock's sketchpad features work from Bridgman's books.
Death and legacy
Bridgman died on December 16, 1943, in New Rochelle, New York, after suffering from an illness for a year. He was survived by his wife, Helene Leonora Bridgman (née Rupperstberg) and their three children. George Bridgman has 100 drawings in the public collection at the Norman Rockwell Museum. • Illustration — Rescue of a Youth Fallen Overboard from a Fishing Boat, 1888, (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York)
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- 1.Love, Richard H. Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport. University Rochester Press. 336. 1999. 978-1-58046-024-8.
- 2.McMann, Evelyn de Rostaing. Biographical Index of Artists in Canada. University of Toronto Press. 31. 2003-01-01. 978-0-8020-2790-0.
- 3.Fielding, Mantle. Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers. Apollo. 217, 783, 991. 1983. 978-0-938290-02-5.
- 4.George B. Bridgman. Illustration History, Norman Rockwell Museum.
- 5.Christmas Spirit. The New York Times. October 24, 1943.
- 6.George Bridgman Art Teacher, Dies. The New York Times. December 17, 1943.
- 7."George Brandt Bridgman at Askart.com"
- 8.Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Members since 1880.
- 9.Art: Bone & Muscle Man. Time. 1942-09-14. 0040-781X.
- 10.McClelland Barclay. Laguna Art Museum.
- 11.Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 47
- 12.Gifford Reynolds Beal (American, 1879 - 1956), West Wind. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
- 13.Routledge. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. 523. 19 December 2013. 978-1-135-63882-5.
- 14.McGlauflin, Alice Coe, ed., Who’s Who in American Art 1938-193 vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937 p. 61
- 15.Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 190, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 116
- 16.McGlauflin, Alice Coe, ed., ‘’Who’s Who in American Art 1938-193 vol.2, The American Federation of Arts, Washington D.C., 1937 p. 102
- 17.Bonner, Judith H. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture. UNC Press Books. 287. 2013-01-14. 978-0-8078-6994-9.
- 18.Kimmerle, Constance. Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical. University of Pennsylvania Press. 124. 2008. 9780812241044.
- 19.Routledge. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. 19 December 2013. 978-1-135-63882-5.
- 20.Hughes, Edan Milton. Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. 1986. 9780961611200.
- 21.Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of American Women in the Visual Arts. Infobase Publishing. 85–86. 2014. 9781438107912.
- 22.Deupi, Victor. Emilio Sanchez in New York and Latin America. Routledge. 2020. 9780429557590.
- 23.Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, 1968 p. 195
- 24.Lynch, Mary. Alumni Profile: Lee Krasner A'29. Cooper Union Alumni Association. 2016-03-20.
- 25.Joyce, Maureen. Richard Lahey, Painter, Ex-Corcoran Principal. The Washington Post. August 3, 1978.
- 26.Rand, Harry, Paul Manship, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington 1989 p. 10
- 27.Oral history interview with Corrado Parducci, 1975 Mar. 17. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- 28.Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, 1968 p. 338
- 29.Proske, Beatrice Gilman, Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, 1968 p. 479
- 30.Toone, Thomas E., Mahonri Young: His Life and Art, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1997 p. 36-37
- 31.Zorach, William, Art is My Life: The Autobiography of William Zorach, The World Publishing Company, Cleveland Ohio, 1967 p.21
- 32.Bradway, Rich. George B. Bridgman drawings in NRM collections. Norman Rockwell Museum. 2013-06-11.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Bridgman, George B. Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life. Weathervane. 1952. 9781402766787.
- Bridgman, George B. Drawing the Draped Figure. Bridgman Publishers. 1942. 9780486138121.
- Bridgman, George B. The Human Machine. 1939.
- Bridgman, George B. Heads, Features and Faces. 1936.
- Bridgman, George B. Bridgmans Handbook of Drawing. 1929.
- Bridgman, George B. Bridgman's Life Drawing. 1924.
- Bridgman, George B. Constructive Anatomy. Bridgman Publishers. 1920.
- Bridgman, George B. The Book of a Hundred Hands. Sterling Publishing Company. 1920. 9780486132600.
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