TitleSelf-Portrait
Artist
Rexford Elson Brandt
(American, 1914 - 2000)
Date1955
MediumWatercolor and graphite
DimensionsSheet size: 22 15/16 × 18 3/4 in.
Mat size: 28 × 23 in.
SignedSigned at lower left: "Rex Brandt/1955"
SubmissionANA diploma presentation, February 6, 1956
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number55-W
Label TextRexford Elson Brandt first studied at Chouinard Art Institute in the late twenties, before eventually graduating from UC Berkeley. He returned to Southern California and began exhibiting with the California Watercolor Society, eventually joining with Phil Dike to open the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting. Brandt became known for his strong geometric style exemplified in this self-portrait.
