Brooks Anderson

Brooks Anderson was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1957. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California State University in Northridge, studying with established artists of the Los Angeles art scene: including Saul Bernstein, Watson Cross, Walter Gabrielson, Marvin Hardin, Joyce Treiman, Hans Burkhardt, and Ernest Velardi. He studied in Maine with William Holst, a student of Hans Hofmann. His work is found in numerous collections, including the Philbrook Museum in Tulsa, and is included in the seminal book, Spirit of Place: Contemporary American Realism in the Landscape Tradition. In 1996-97 Brooks lived in the south of France, completing fifty paintings of the region. Currently living in northern California, he devotes himself full time to producing invocative landscape and seascape paintings.