Discipline: Visual Art

Srule Brachman

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1976
Srule Brachman is an American painter and educator. He grew up in the Bronx, New York. He attended the High School of Music and Art, the School of Visual Arts, and Pratt Institute where he received his B.F.A. in painting, art education and art history. He taught for the NYC Public Schools in the Bronx and Harlem. After leaving New York in 1990 with his family and settling in Santa Fe, NM, he taught for the Santa Fe Public Schools and helped establish Edward Ortiz Middle School and Monte del Sol Charter School. At Monte del Sol he taught arts humanities classes to grades 7-12 and supervised an eight-teacher arts department. He earned his M.A. in at risk educational leadership, and an educational specialist degree in educational administration. He has worked with at-risk students in charter and alternative schools throughout his educational career teaching courses in visual arts, social studies, language arts, drama, art history, adolescent skills, and talented and gifted education. He has been creating and exhibiting his paintings, drawings, and constructed works for many years in New York City, New England, Santa Fe, and Portland. Brachman’s work is abstract, and derived from the work of Cezanne, the Cubists, Russian Constructivists, the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, and contemporary painting.

Studios

Cheney

Srule Brachman worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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