Ukrainian, b. 1898

Robert Brackman came from Russia to the United States with his family when he was eleven years old. He studied art with Robert Henri and George Bellows in New York, and went on to specialize in portraiture and figure painting. Brackman taught at a number of schools including the Art Students League and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and he lectured widely about art education. He was very conservative in his opinions about art and disdained abstraction, warning his students that “it is for the dilettante and good conversationalist, and not for a student who wishes to become a professional artist.”

Education
1919-1921 National Academy of Design, New York, New York, USA
Ferrer School, San Francisco, USA

Exhibitions
1931, Brackman; Feb. 9-21, 1931, Macbeth Gallery, 15 East 57th Street, New York, USA
1933, Brackman; portraits, figures in pastel; Nov. 14-27, 1933; Macbeth Gallery, 15 East 57th Street, New York, USA
1933, Brackman; Mar. 21-Apr. 10, 1933; Macbeth Gallery, 15 East 57th Street, New York, USA
1934, Brackan; Nov. 20-Dec. 10, 1934; Macbeth Gallery, 15 East 57th Street, New York, USA
1936, Brackan; Mar. 24-Apr. 6, 1936; Macbeth Gallery, 15 East 57th Street, New York, USA