Gandy Brodie was born in New York City on October 20, 1925 on the lower east side, and was essentially a self-taught artist.  He was inspired to paint after seeing Van Gogh's Starry Night , Picasso and Klee at the Museum of Modern Art, all had a influence on his singular "expressionist " style.  It's interesting to note that artists like Willen de Kooning and Hans Hoffman had paintings of Brodie's in their personal collections, the Phillips Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art all hold works by Gandy Brodie in their permanent collections.  Brodie rose to prominence in the mid-1950's after exhibiting at the Whitney Museum in New York City in 1954, Annual. He painted and taught in Vermont and in New York City.  The signature work of Brodie is his use of heavy impasto in oil paintings.

After a  full but short career Gandy Brodie died October 22, 1975 , in New York , NY at the age of 51.
 
Studied:
Martha Graham student 1945-46
Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts, 1950
Columbia University, New York, studied with Meyer Schapiro, 1954
New School of Social Research, New York, Meyer Schapiro 1954
Travel & study aboard: Mexico, France, Italy, Spain-1951, Europe, 1955-59.
 
Awards:
Mark Twain Art Contest, New York, NY, judged by Hans Hoffman, James J. Sweeney and Meyer Schapiro, 1958
Longview Foundation Purchase Grants, 1960,1961
Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, 1962
Artists-in- Residence, Hollins College, Va. 1968
National Council on the Arts Award, 1969
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969
Washington State, Title III Cultural Enrichment Grant
 
One Man Exhibitions : 19,  1951-1991
 
Group Exhibitions:  24,  1945-1990
 
Collections:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Chrysler Museum of Art, Provincetown, MA
Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, VA
Colby- Sawyer College, New London, VA
Everson Museum of Art of Syaracuse and Onadaga County, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Mint Museum of Art, Charotte, NC
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Sarah Lawerence College, Bronxville, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA

Sources:
Smithsonian Archives of American Art : Gandy Brodie papers, 1954-1983. 
Steven Harvey Fine Art Services.
Edward Throp Gallery, New York, NY.