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Bertram Richard Brooker

Bertram Richard Brooker (1888 - 1955) was active/lived in Ontario, Manitoba / Canada.  Bertram Brooker is known for Easel painting-abstraction, commercial art, illustration.

Bertram Richard Brooker (AKA: Bertram Brooker, AKA: Richard Surrey, AKA: Huxley Herne) was a painter, graphic artist, commercial artist, illustrator, writer, novelist, playwright, advertising executive and a pioneer of Canadian abstraction.  He was born in Croydon, Surrey, England (now a part of London).  His family emigrated to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba (50 miles west of Winnipeg) in 1905.  In 1921, he moved to Toronto, Ontario where he lived the rest of his life and died.
 
His mediums were oil, watercolour, tempera*, pencil, and pen and ink.  His most famous early works (1925 - 1929) were complex hard-edge geometric abstractions inspired by music and focusing on colour, shape, perspective and rhythm.  His styles were Vortecism*, Futurism*, Surrealism* and Art Deco*.  After 1930 his subject content expanded to include landscapes, still life, nudes, portraits, dreams, religion, mysticism, spirituality, allegory, metaphorica   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 11276 characters.]  Artist bio

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