Canadian-American painter, writer and teacher (1864–1943)
George Brant Bridgman RCA [ 1] painter ,writer , andteacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at theArt Students League of New York for some 45 years.
Bridgman was born in 1864 in theUnited Province of Canada .[ 2] [ 3] Jean-Léon Gérôme at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and later withGustave Boulanger .[ 1] United States where he taughtanatomy andfigure drawing at theArt Students League of New York (from 1898 until 1900, and then 1903 until October 1943).[ 4] [ 5] Robert Beverly Hale . Bridgman had also taught classes at theGrand Central School of Art and at theAmerican Bank Note Company .[ 6]
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.[ 7]
He had been a member of theRoyal Canadian Academy of Arts .[ 8]
Among his many thousands of students wasNorman Rockwell ;[ 1] [ 4] My Adventures as an Illustrator (1960), Rockwell spoke highly of Bridgman. Roughly 70,000 students studied with Bridgman in his many years of teaching,[ 4] [ 9] McClelland Barclay ,[ 10] Emily Newton Barto ,[ 11] C. C. Beall ,Gifford Beal ,[ 12] Elizabeth Cady Stanton Blake ,[ 13] Rosina Cox Boardman ,[ 14] Bessie Callender ,[ 15] Dane Chanase ,[ 16] Richard V. Culter ,Chon Day ,Joseph Delaney ,[ 1] [ 17] Elsie Driggs ,[ 18] Eyre de Lanux ,[ 19] Helen Winslow Durkee ,[ 20] Will Eisner ,Edward McNeil Farmer ,[ 21] Elias Goldberg ,Marion Greenwood ,[ 13] [ 22] Robert Beverly Hale ,[ 23] Lorenzo Homar ,Clark Hulings ,Louis Paul Jonas ,[ 24] Jack Kamen ,Deane Keller ,Lee Krasner ,[ 25] Richard Lahey ,[ 26] Andrew Loomis ,Anita Malfatti ,Paul Manship ,[ 27] Frank McCarthy ,Evelyn Metzger ,Earl Moran ,John Cullen Murphy ,Kimon Nicolaïdes ,Corrado Parducci ,[ 28] Norman Raeben ,Frank J. Reilly ,Joseph Emile Renier ,[ 29] Ulysses Ricci ,Ernie Schroeder ,Archie Boyd Teater ,Allie Tennant ,[ 30] John Vassos ,Franklin Brooke Voss ,Edmund Ward ,[ 1] Mahonri Young ,[ 31] William Zorach .[ 32]
Jackson Pollock 's sketchpad features work from Bridgman's books.
Bridgman died on December 16, 1943, inNew Rochelle ,New York , after suffering from an illness for a year.[ 6] [ 6]
George Bridgman has 100 drawings in the public collection at theNorman Rockwell Museum .[ 33]
Rescue of a Youth Fallen Overboard from a Fishing Boat , 1888, (Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York)Bridgman, George B.; Simon, Howard (1952).Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing from Life ISBN 9781402766787 {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) Bridgman, George B. (1942).Drawing the Draped Figure ISBN 9780486138121 {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) Bridgman, George B. (1939).The Human Machine . Bridgman, George B. (1936).Heads, Features and Faces . Bridgman, George B. (1929).Bridgmans Handbook of Drawing . Bridgman, George B. (1924).Bridgman's Life Drawing . Bridgman, George B. (1920).Constructive Anatomy Bridgman, George B. (1920).The Book of a Hundred Hands ISBN 9780486132600 {{cite book }}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help ) Many of Bridgman's books are available as reprints byDover Publications .
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