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Paul Brach
Biography
Born: Brooklyn, New York, 1924
Died: East Hampton, New York, 2007
Paul Brach’s career spanned the history of Modernism in the United States as an artist, teacher and critic. First associated with the Abstract Expressionists, who defined a new “American” art in 1950’s New York, Brach also experimented with Minimalism in the 1960’s. For over two decades he combined these styles and his experiences of the southwestern United States in paintings and prints of landscape subjects.
Brach received both his B.F.A. and his M.F.A. from the State University of Iowa. He taught at numerous institutions, including the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Fordham University, Cornell University, and was Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of Art from 1969-1975. He also contributed criticism to many national publications, including Art in American and Artforum.
Died: East Hampton, New York, 2007
Paul Brach’s career spanned the history of Modernism in the United States as an artist, teacher and critic. First associated with the Abstract Expressionists, who defined a new “American” art in 1950’s New York, Brach also experimented with Minimalism in the 1960’s. For over two decades he combined these styles and his experiences of the southwestern United States in paintings and prints of landscape subjects.
Brach received both his B.F.A. and his M.F.A. from the State University of Iowa. He taught at numerous institutions, including the University of Kansas at Lawrence, Columbia University, The Cooper Union, Fordham University, Cornell University, and was Dean of the School of Art at the California Institute of Art from 1969-1975. He also contributed criticism to many national publications, including Art in American and Artforum.