George Bridgman

3 Works

For other people named George Bridgeman, see George

Bridgeman (disambiguation).

Many of Bridgmans standard books on anatomy for

George Brant Bridgman (18651943) was a Canadian- artists are still in print via Dover Publications.
American painter, writer, and teacher in the elds of
anatomy and gure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy
Bridgmans Complete Guide to Drawing From Life
for artists at the Art Students League of New York for
Constructive Anatomy
some 45 years.
The Human Machine
Bridgmans Life Drawing

Heads, Features and Faces

Life and Work

The Book of a Hundred Hands

In his youth, Bridgman studied the arts under painter and
sculptor Jean-Lon Grme at the cole des Beaux-Arts
in Paris, and later with Gustave Boulanger. For most
of his life Bridgman lived in New York where he taught
anatomy and gure drawing at the Art Students League of
New York. Among his many thousands of students were
the American cartoonist Will Eisner and Norman Rockwell; in his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, Rockwell spoke highly of Bridgman. His successor
at Art Students League was Robert Beverly Hale.

4 Honours
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts[2]

5 References
[1] George Brandt Bridgman at Askart.com

Bridgman used box forms to represent the major masses

of the gure (head, thorax, and pelvis) which he would
tie together with gestural lines and produce to create wedges or simplied interconnecting forms of the
body.[1]

[2] Members since 1880. Royal Canadian Academy of

Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013.

6 External links
Drawings from George Bridgmans 1911 Art Class

Amazon.com Books by Bridgman

Notable students

Art Students League of New York

Artists who studied with Bridgman include: Frank
J. Reilly, McClelland Barclay, Emily Newton Barto,
Giord Beal, Dane Chanase, Richard V. Culter, Chon
Day, Will Eisner, Seymour Foge, Elias Goldberg, Robert
Beverly Hale, Clark Hulings, Jack Kamen, Deane Keller,
Andrew Loomis, Anita Malfatti, Paul Manship, Peter
Max, Frank McCarthy, Earl Moran, Kimon Nicolades,
Corrado Parducci, Ulysses Ricci, Norman Rockwell,
Ernie Schroeder, Archie Boyd Teater, John Vassos,
Edmund Ward, Franklin Brooke Voss, David Wu Ject
Key, Bessie Callender, and Stanley Maxwell Zuckerberg.

Dover Publications

Jackson Pollock's sketchpad features work from Bridgmans books.

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