Background
Brook, Alexander was born on July 14, 1898 in Brooklyn. Son of Onufri and Eudoxia (Gelescu) Brook.
Brook, Alexander was born on July 14, 1898 in Brooklyn. Son of Onufri and Eudoxia (Gelescu) Brook.
In 1914 he entered the Art Students League, where he studied for four years.
; children—Belinda, Alexander Bacon. Married second, Gina Knee, December 22, 1944. Awards: Logan medal and purchase prize ($2,500), Chicago The Art Institute of Chicago 1929.
2d prize, Lehman award, 29th annual, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1930.
Temple gold medal 126th annual Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1931. Fellowship in painting Guggenheim Foundation, New York City, 1931.
1st prize Los Angeles Museum, 1934. Gold medal American Section International Exposition, Paris, 1937.
1st prize and special merit award 17th Annual Exposition of Advertising Art, New York City, 1937.
1st prize, American painting, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1938. Medal of award San Francisco Art Association, 1938. 1st prize 38th Annual, Carnegie Institute, 1939.
Beck gold medal Pennsylvania Academy, 1948.
Benjamin Altman 2d prize National Academy of Design, 1957, 60. Represented in permanent collections Metropolitan Museum, New York City.
Brooklyn Museum. The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. U. Nebraska; William Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missoury.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Museum Modern Art, New York City.
Newark (New Jersey) Museum, Boston Museum.
Toledo (Ohio) Museum, Ann Arbor (Michigan) State University. De Young Museum, San Francisco Museum. Corcoran Gallery, Washington.
Albright Gallery, Buffalo.
City Art Museum, Saint Louis. Whitney Museum of America Art, New York City, Oqunquit (Maine) Museum Artist
Member National Institute Arts and Letters, National Academy of Design (Gold medal 1950).
Married Peggy Bacon, May 4, 1920 (divorced 1940). Married second, Gina Knee, December 22, 1944. Children: Belinda, Alexander Bacon.