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| The following, submitted January 2005, is from the artist.
Brooks
Anderson was born in Santa Monica, California in 1957. He
graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State
University in Northridge, studying with established artists of the Los
Angeles art scene, including Saul Bernstein, Watson Cross, Walter
Gabrielson, Marvin Hardin, Joyce Treiman, Hans Burkhardt, and Ernest
Velardi. He studied in Maine with William Holst, a student of
Hans Hofmann.
In 1996-97, Brooks lived for a year in the south
of France, completing fifty paintings of the region. Currently
living in northern California, he devotes himself full time to
producing invocative landscape paintings.
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Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, Tokyo, Japan
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Massachusetts Financial Corporation, Boston, MA
James McEntee, INC., New York, NY
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Nomura Securities, New York, NY
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Tudor Investment Group, New York, NY
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SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Arden Wood, San Francisco, CA
Lancaster Capital, Tampa Bay, FL
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MUSEUM COLLECTION
The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allen, Scott Douglas. Arts Magazine. April 1986
Arthur, John. Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition
Hagerty, Donald. Canyon do Chelly: 100 Years of Painting and Photography
Willard, Christopher, American Artist magazine, February, 2006 Feature article
Wolff, Theodore F., The Christian Science Monitor. "Taking Serenity Seriously," April 25, 1985
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