Brooks Anderson

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NOW AVAILABLE BY BROOKS ANDERSON
The Channel, 2022
oil on canvas, 24" x 48"

Brooks Anderson is known for his gifted handling of atmospheric luminance and clarity of light. His landscapes are modern in composition, spiritually evocative, highly detailed visions of the mountains, the sea, and the sky — but portrayed in a contemporary context. His work explores the same ethereal effects of atmospheric light that fascinated the Hudson River School landscape painters of the 1850s and 1870s.

Inspired by Albert Bierstadt and Frederic Edwin Church, Anderson has been best known until now for his seascapes in which sky dissolves into water, and light conveys spirituality. His newest body of work adds two new elements - the terrain of the desert and midcentury modern architecture. While this might seem surprising for one known for landscape, the new paintings have even more of the dramatic glow, contrast of realist and painterly passages for which Anderson has been known.

Brooks Anderson's work has toured nationally and is in numerous corporate collections including AT&T, Citibank, GE as well as the Seavest Collection of Contemporary Realism, and the Philbrook Museum of Art; he is cited in The Christian Science Monitor, American Art Collector, American Artist Magazine, Arts Magazine, ART/World, and noted in Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition as well as Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting and the American Tradition both by John Arthur.

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