Artists We Buy_|_ Sell Your Art_|_ Free Art Evaluation_|_ Featured Artists_|_ California Watercolors_|_ California Impressionism_|_ Links_|_ Email Us
     
 
 
  We are actively purchasing art by Rex Brandt  
  Please click here to sell your Rex Brandt painting or receive a free art evaluation of your piece.  
 
 
 
Morning Mood at Balboa
California Watercolor
15" x 22"
More
 
  
Nassau
Watercolor
18" x 22"
More
 
  
Stilt House
California Watercolor
15" x 22"
More
 
Rex Brandt (1914 - 2000)
California Watercolor
 
Click to review some of the paintings we've recently purchased by Rex Brandt.
 
Biography
Rex Brandt, N.A. (1914-2000)

Born: San Diego, CA

Studied: Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles), University of California (Berkeley)

Member: National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club.

Rex Brandt was a native Californian artist. He was raised in Southern California and in 1928, while still attending junior high school, began studying art at the Chouinard Art Institute. After a few years at Riverside Junior College, Brandt continued his art education at the University of California (Berkeley), studying with John Haley.

By the time Rex returned to Southern California, the core group of California watercolor artists was already forming. Although Brandt was still quite young, the more established artists immediately recognized his artistic talent and readily accepted him into the group. Within a few years Rex Brandt was winning awards from art shows throughout Western America.

For a brief period, Brandt was involved with the P.WPA. Art Project and in 1939 Rex was selected as one of the premier California watercolorists to exhibit in the New York World's Fair art exhibition, American Art Today. In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he refined his skills and developed the style of painting which would bring him international recognition.

Teaching art was also an important aspect of Brandt's career. In the early 1940s, he promoted watercolor workshops in San Diego. After World War 11, he and Phil Dike formed the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting in Corona del Mar. This became one of the most successful watercolor schools in California during the 1950s era. From 1947 to 1952, he taught watercolor painting and composition classes at the Chouinard Art Institute. Through these classes and his eleven instructional books on watercolor painting, Brandt educated and inspired a large number of professional watercolor artists.

REx Brandt was president of the California Water Color Society in 1948 and is considered one of the most important and influential California watercolor artists.

Rex Brandt biography posted with permission of “California Watercolors 1850-1970” by Gordon T. McClelland and Jay T. Last. Copyright Hillcrest Press, Inc. 2002.
 
  
  ©2006 ibuyart.com, All rights reserved