The Pacificulture Foundation Presents Nick Brigante ... 1971 (Artwork / Mockup And Final Version Of Brochure For Exhibition Of Work Of Nicholas P. Brigante (1895- 1989) [With] 1983 Exhibition Postcard From Brigante To Jae Carmichael

Pasadena Ca 1971: Pacificulture Foundation, 1971. Original Artwork . No Binding. Good. Seven Photographs, Four Of Which Are Original. Five-Fold 1971 Brochure Mock-Up, Handwritten, Pacificulture Printed Text, Seven Reproductions Of Works By Brigante, And A Copy Of The Final Three-Fold Version. Also With A Postcard From Brigante, Picturing A Work From His 1983 Exhibition At The Toby C. Moss Gallery, With His Pencil Title/Date And A Message To The Recipient, Jae Carmichael. The Foundation, Of Which She Was The First Head, Bought The Historic, Unique Grace Nicholson Building In 1971 And Assumed The Asian Art Collections. Per Lacma, Nicholas P. Brigante Was One Of The Earliest And Foremost Modernists In Los Angeles. Although He Used A Variety Of Mediums, He Worked Primarily With Watercolor Or Ink. Brigante Studied At The Art Students League Of Los Angeles In 1913 With Rex Slinkard (1887-1918), Who Became His Close Friend And Mentor. Slinkard Encouraged Him In His Interest In Classical Art, Chinese Landscape Painting, And Oriental Philosophy, All Of Which Were To Help Determine The Spirit Of Brigante'S Art. Brigante Fought In World War I And On His Return To Los Angeles Became An Active, Independent Artist. From 1923 To 1924 He Undertook His Only Major Excursion To The East Coast, Living In New York And Immersing Himself In Modernist Circles. During The 1930S He Produced Several Figurative Series Based On The Theme Of Workers And The West; Interiors With Nudes; And, For A Proposed Federally Sponsored Project, A Nine-Panel Mural On The Struggle Of Mankind (Lacma; Q.V.). Although During The 1940S He Composed Allegorical And Figurative Scenes Inspired By Automatic Drawing, Brigante Increasingly Moved From Figuration Toward A Spiritual Abstraction Based On His Response To Nature. Around 1957 He Began The Series Cloud Lands Of Abstraction, In Which He Combined The Refined Calligraphy Of His Automatic Drawings With Atmospheric Washes Suggested By Southern Song-Period Chinese Painting. After The Los Angeles Art Association Gave Him A Retrospective Exhibition In 1963, Brigante Added A New Element To His Art, Brilliant Color, And Turned To Oils. He Continued To Create Abstracted Imagery Inspired By His Personal Response To Nature, Working On An Ever-Increasing Scale And Often Utilizing A Multiple-Panel Format. His Works Continued To Appear In Exhibitions Of Contemporary Art As Well As In Historical Surveys, And Brigante Was (Also) Given Solo Exhibitions By Loyola, Marymount University, Los Angeles, In 1973 And The Long Beach Art Association In 1975.