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Mildred Bryant Brooks

Mildred Bryant Brooks (1901–1995) was an American printmaker, and teacher.[1] She taught at Stickney Memorial Art School for many years, and was a co-founder of The Six Print Club. She was known for her etchings the California landscape and trees.

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Early life and education

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Mildred Bryant Brooks was born on July 21, 1901, in Maryville, Missouri.[2] She was the daughter of Millie (née Davis), and J. Jay Bryant.[3] The Bryant family moved in 1907 to Long Beach, California.[3] She attended Long Beach High School (now Long Beach Polytechnic High School).[4]

Brooks graduated with a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Southern California (USC);[3] and continued studies after her graduation at the Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design), and Chouinard Art Institute.[3] She studied under Arthur Millier,[5] Frank Tolles Chamberlin,[6] and Earl Stetson Crawford.[7]

She was married to Don J. Brooks.[8]

Boy Trouble by Mildred Bryant Brooks, undated.

Career

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Starting in 1929, Brooks learned etching,[5] and began teaching at Stickney Memorial Art School in Pasadena, California.

The Six Print Club was a fine art prints subscription service, founded in 1932 by Brooks, Arthur Millier, Margaret Kidder, A. Simon, Jane McDuffle Thurston, and Martha Simmons.[9] In the 1930s, she became known as the "best etchers of trees" nationally, after it was stated a 1936 article in the Los Angeles Times.[7][10] In 1936, Brooks had a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C..[4] During World War II, she left printmaking and started focusing her work in mural painting.

She died on July 3, 1995, in Santa Barbara, California.[3] Her work can be found in museum collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[11] the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.,[12] the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art,[6] the New York Public Library Print Collection, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[13] the Dayton Art Institute, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and the Laguna Art Museum.[14]

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