ARTIST: Phil Brinkman (Missouri, Washington, Illinois, Florida, 1916 - 2000)
TITLE: Gentleman Dining
YEAR: 1966
MEDIUM: oil on canvas. Canvas applied to board. Some damages to frame.
CONDITION: Few minor scratches/paint losses. No visible inpaint under UV light.
ART SIZE: 47 x 24 inches / 119 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 48 x 24 inches / 121 x 60 cm
SIGNATURE: unsigned
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
Phil Brinkman was born in 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri. The Brinkmans were an established family in St. Louis with ventures in land holding, farming, construction, and automobile sales.Brinkman's father dabbled in art, although he had no formal training. Brinkman attended a local business college after high school but felt a passion for art early on. During his teen years, he used to paint portraits of some of the sharecroppers who worked on his uncle's farm outside St. Louis.Brinkman decided to enroll in Washington University School of Fine Arts. Later he joined the American Academy, Chicago, once he reached the stage where he felt that he had learned everything that the Washington University School of Fine Arts had to offer. In Chicago, Brinkman worked with Hyden Sundblum, a commercial illustrator.In 1944, Brinkman was stationed at Army Air Force Station 174, Sudbury, Suffolk, England. Brinkman had been working on the nose art for the planes as well as doing murals on the base. In addition to the Zodiacs, he did other Nose Art pieces. Unfortunately, none of these original panels survived, but there are photographs of many of these paintings documented in Nose Art books.In his later years, Brinkman came down off the scaffolding and focused on paintings that could be done in his studio. He moved to Englewood, Florida in 1989 and was active in the local art scene on the Gulf Coast. He died in Gainesville, Florida where he lived with his daughter's family in May of 2000.