Alexander Brook Painters--United States Landscape painters--United States Artists--United States Brook, Alexander, 1898-1980 Photograph of Alexander Brook, a prominent figurative painter during the first half of the twentieth century. He wears a suit and looks toward the right. A native of New York, he lived sporadically in Savannah, Georgia between 1938 and 1948, where he executed numerous sketches that became the basis for paintings exhibited nationwide. Brook was a leader among New York City's mainstream figurative painters during the 1930s. Trained in the American realist tradition of painting, Brook's landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes are largely devoid of overt or hidden social meaning and are characterized by subdued colors and strong, weighty shapes. New Georgia Encyclopedia Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, Ga.) Black-and-white photographs http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-10768 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-3435 Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia Courtesy of Morris Museum of Art.