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...Painter Alexander Brook, the first goal of an artist should be "to make each work more magical than the one before." This gets harder as a man gets older. But last week in the summer port of Ogunquit, Me., a new one-man show of 31 paintings by Brook shows that the magic has been pretty well distributed over a long lifetime. The show reaches back to 1924, ranges in subject from an affectionate portrait of a puppy, to broad, brooding landscapes, to snapshots of young girls caught at some moment of loneliness. Brook is a lusty personality who uses...
...mind is never far from the converted stable he uses as a studio. There, either painting from a model or from memory, he turns out nudes, landscapes, portraits and still lifes that are flecked with fragments of earthy humor and yet are generally bathed in sadness. A Brook painting does not scream for attention: the colors are usually subdued and subtly graded, the mood is muted, and the technique is so sure as to be unseen, like an invisible seam...
Teacher in a Cutaway. Brook got some of his first lessons in technique from a character in Manhattan who made his precarious living by doing oil blowups of photo portraits. "He seemed a real artist," Brook recalls, "in a cutaway and striped trousers, working his little brush at breakneck speed. He would produce anything you could imagine-a battleship, a seascape-with dazzling facility." At 16, after a bout with polio that fortunately left no traces, Brook was painting ancient statuary at Pratt Institute; at 17 he enrolled at the Art Students League where in time he became a member...
After conducting the traditional morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
...past three years, Verkauf has been responsible for selling about 100 pictures by André Verlon; he arranged one-man shows for him in Munich and Düsseldorf, found gallery outlets for him in Paris, Basel and Milan. Last week Verlon was on show at the Brook Street Gallery in London, and Manhattan's D'Arcy Galleries will exhibit his work next fall. André Verlon is doing nicely for a man who does not exist...