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Edmund Brucker

Edmund Brucker (1912 - 1999) was active/lived in Indiana, Ohio.  Edmund Brucker is known for Portrait, landscape, industry and urban scene painting.

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Edmund Brucker was active as a portrait painter in Indianapolis from 1938 until his death, and he recorded the likenesses of many prominent people around the state, including Dr. and Mrs. Norris Shreve, Mrs. Otis R. Bowen, and Colonel A. Weir Cook. In 1967, the artist retired from his post of almost thirty years as a professor at the Herron School of Art. Brucker represented a dwindling group of Indiana artists whose rigorous artistic training prepared them for the exactitude of portrait painter.

He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912. He studied art at the Cleveland School of Art and graduated in 1934. His teachers included Henry Keller, Rolf Stoll, and Paul Travis. In 1938, Brucker joined the faculty of the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught until his retirement in the early 1980s.

Though he was best known as a portrait painter, Brucker was also a painter of the Great Lakes regional scene. Adept in both oil and watercolor, he produced   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3194 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Edmund Brucker

   Publications  Book References:  13
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Edmund Brucker
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Artists of the Great Lakes, 1910-1960 June 2007 Carducci, Vince Yes
American Art Review The Herron School of Art Centennial December 2002 Warkel, Harriet G. Yes
American Art Review Visions of the American Heartland April 2000 Maciejunes, Nannette Yes
13 Book References for Edmund Brucker
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor) Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition) 1512 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Marquis Who's Who Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998 1515 No
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1993 Newton, Judith/Carol Weiss A Grand Tradition: The Art and Artists of the Hoosier Salon, 1925-1990 479 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1986 Jaques Cattell Press Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986 1292 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Krantz, Les American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans 347 Yes
1978 Peat, Wilbur D Portraits and Painters of the Governors of Indiana 1800-1978 104 Yes
1947 Editor Collectors of American Art, Inc. Annual Bulletin, Vol. XI, December 1947
(Exhibition catalog)
25 No
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