Untitled

James Brooks grew up in Texas and attended
Southern Methodist University from 1923 to 1925.
He arrived in New York in the mid-1920s, and
supported himself as a commercial artist while
studying painting at the Art Students League.
Brooks took up teaching, first at Columbia, and
then for more extended periods at Pratt Institute
and Yale His first solo show at Peridot Gallery in
1950, featured stained and dripped canvases
influenced by Jackson Pollock, a close friend.