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Biography |
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1899 |
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Born, Syracuse, NY |
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1913 |
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Scholarship, Sculpture Studio of Hugo Gari Wagner |
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1917 - 1921 |
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Studied painting at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
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1921 |
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Magazine illustration commissions from Conde Nast, New York, NY (including Vogue and Town & Country) |
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1921 |
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Hiram Gee Fellowship to study at Académie Colarossi and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France |
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1922 |
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Louis Tiffany Foundation Scholarship |
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1923 - 1924 |
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Traveled to England and France |
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1925 |
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First summer in Woodstock, NY |
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1926 |
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Traveled to England, Italy, Switzerland, France |
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1927 |
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Returned to the US |
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1924 - 1929 |
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Returned to New York and worked as an Illustrator |
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1932 - 1933 |
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Taught at The Buckley School, New York, NY |
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1933 - 1934 |
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Taught at The Dalton School, New York, NY |
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1936 - 1937 |
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Visited Museum of Modern Art's exhibition "Fantastic Art, Dada, and Surrealism" |
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1932 - 1941 |
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Taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY |
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1945 |
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Met and was influenced by Adolph Gottlieb, Robert Motherwell, Phillip Guston, and Jackson Pollock |
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1950 |
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Participated in a three-day symposium at Studio 35 with William Baziotes, James Brooks, Willem de Kooning, Herbert Ferber, Theodoros Stamos, David Smith, and Hans Hoffman |
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1953 |
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Died, New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2006 |
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"MoMA in Berlin," Neue Nationalgalerie, Kulturforum, Berlin, Germany |
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1994 |
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"Raoul Hague, Arshile Gorky, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Philip Guston: An Exhibition in Memory of Raoul Hague," Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY(solo) |
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1989 |
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Retrospective, Baruch College Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1969 |
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"New American Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1959 |
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"Documenta II," Kassel, Germany |
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1957 - 1958 |
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"Bradley Walker Tomlin," the Art Galleries of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (solo) |
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1956 |
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"Large Scale Paintings II," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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1955 |
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Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington D.C. (solo) |
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1955 |
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Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, France |
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1954 - 1955 |
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"The New Decade," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1953 |
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Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1953 |
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"Second Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Stable Gallery," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
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1953 |
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“São Paulo Bienal”, São Paulo, Brazil |
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1952 |
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"Fifteen Americans," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1952 |
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Pittsburgh International Exhibition, Pittsburgh, PA |
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1951 |
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"Ninth Street" Show, 60 East 9th Street, New York, NY |
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1951 |
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"Abstract Painting and Sculpture in American," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
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1951 |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign |
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1951 |
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“São Paulo Bienal”, São Paulo, Brazil |
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1950 |
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Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1949 |
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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1944 |
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Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York, NY (solo) |
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1931 |
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Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York, NY (solo) |
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1927 |
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Montross Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1926 |
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Montross Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1925 |
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Anderson Galleries, New York, NY (solo - watercolors) |
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1925 |
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Whitney Studio Club, New York, NY |
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1922 |
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Skaneateles, NY (solo - watercolors) |
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1922 |
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Cazenovia, NY (solo - watercolors) |
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Literature |
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1957 |
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Baur, John I. H., "Bradley Walker Tomlin," Whitney Museum of American Art / The Macmillan Company 1957, New York (with notes on the artist by Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Duncan Phillips, and Frederick S. Wight) |
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