Bradley Walker Tomlin Original Irascibles NY Abstract Expressionism Lyrical Mix Media Oil Painting

Bradley Walker Tomlin (August 19, 1899 – May 11, 1953), a prominent American artist, belonged to the first generation of New York Abstract Expressionist school of artists. Bradley Tomlin was born in Syracuse, New York, where he was the youngest of four children. Since high school, he wanted to be an artist. Tomlin returned to New York in the fall of 1924. He began exhibiting in 1925 at the Whitney Studio Club. In 1926 Tomlin returned to Europe, where he visited England, Italy, and Switzerland; but he mainly stayed in Paris. He returned to America in July 1927. He also discovered Woodstock, New York where he spent his summers.      He participated in the famous ‘’Ninth Street Show". According to John I. H. Baur, Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tomlin’s "life and his work were marked by a persistent, restless striving toward perfection, in a truly classical sense of the word, towards that 'inner logic' of form which would produce a total harmony, an unalterable rightness,