Description: Vintage original watercolor by Leonard Brooks. Signed lower right, image size 22 x 29. Nice frame. Mexican village. Brooks lived and painted in Mexico, was a friend of famous Mexican artist, David Siqueiros In 1947 Leonard and Reva Brooks left for Mexico where Leonard planned to study painting for a year. In Mexico they discovered a vibrant, sometimes even dangerous, society and a dynamic artistic community, unlike the mundane world they had left behind in Canada with its stale and unwelcoming artistic scene. Invigorated by their new environment Leonard and Reva ended up staying for over half a century, playing a key role in establishing San Miguel de Allende as a world-famous art colony. In this new biography, John Virtue chronicles the lives of these two important artists and offers an intimate look at these complex and creative people. Virtue describes how they were caught up in the McCarthy era of Communist witch hunts and blacklisted in the United States. He details their close friendships with luminary figures such as Marshall McLuhan, Earle Birney, and the Mexican art icon David Alfaro Siqueiros, as well as a host of others. As Leonard became a fixture in the Mexican art scene Reva's photography quickly garnered international recognition, applauded by photographers Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. In 1975 the San Francisco Museum of Art selected her as one of the top fifty female photographers of all time. With tales of deportations, shootouts, murder attempts, failures, and triumphs, Leonard and Reva Brooks is a biography of two creative people caught up in interesting times.Review:"John Virtue reveals the fascinating story of how the deportation at gunpoint of American and Canadian art teachers from San Miguel de Allende at the start of the McCarthy witch hunts almost kept the Mexican town from becoming the international art center it is today." Andres Oppenheimer, author of Bordering on Chaos: Mexico's Roller-Coaster Journey Toward Prosperity "Virtue's extensive research into the lives of Leonard and Reva Brooks opens our eyes to the circle of Canadian artists who made their home in San Miguel, Mexico.
Price: 975 USD
Location: San Diego, California
End Time: 2024-12-14T20:19:18.000Z
Shipping Cost: 75 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Leonard Brooks
Size: Large
Signed: Yes
Framing: Framed
Region of Origin: México, Mexico
Subject: Cityscapes, Landscape
Type: Painting
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 22
Theme: Cities & Towns
Features: One of a Kind (OOAK)
Production Technique: Watercolor Painting
Country/Region of Manufacture: Mexico
Item Width: 29
Time Period Produced: 1940-1970
