Artist Monograph

James Brooks, American

American, 1906–1992

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Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Lithography	2	40%
Oil Painting	2	40%
Screenprint	1	20%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Drawings & Prints	3	60%
Painting & Sculpture	2	40%

Production by Decade

1

1930s

1

1950s

1

1960s

2

1970s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	60%
Large (1–3 m)	2	40%

Range: 31.1 cm → 203.2 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1934	1
1956	1
1976	1
1989	1
1994	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 5 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Early Morning Print Acc. 144.1934	1933	Lithograph	composition: 8 15/16 x 12 1/4" (22.7 x 31.1cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Qualm Painting Acc. 247.1956	1954	Oil on canvas	61 x 57 1/8" (154.9 x 144.9 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Gift of Mrs. Bliss Parkinson
Obsol Painting Acc. 617.1994	1964	Oil on canvas	6' 8" x 6' 2" (203.2 x 188 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Painting & Sculpture	Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest
The Springs from Ten Lithographs by Ten Artists Print Acc. 460.1988.2	1971	One from a portfolio of ten lithographs	composition and sheet: 29 15/16 x 21 15/16" (76 x 55.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Given anonymously
Concord from America: The Third Century Print Acc. 502.1976.2	1975	Screenprint from a portfolio of five lithograph and screenprints, three collotypes, three screenprints, and two lithographs	composition (irreg.): 28 1/4 x 20 5/8" (71.8 x 52.4cm); sheet: 30 x 22 1/8" (76.2 x 56.2cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Gift of the Mobil Oil Corporation