Nick Brigante was part of Los Angeles' founding generation of Modernist artists. His career spanned seven decades, during which he captured on canvas the wildlife of Arroyo Seco and Elysian Park, the natural beauty of the Hollywood Hills and the budding development of a young Los Angeles.
He was a member of the Los Angeles Art Students League, and found a mentor in famed Modernist painter Rex Slinkard, and began studying a broad spectrum of art history, particularly Chinese philosophies and art forms.
In 1922 He married Francesca Johnson. His paintings would often bear the dedication: "For my Francesca." They had no children of their own, but were beloved by their numerous nieces and nephews. Francesca was the subject of a painting called "Cynical" in 1933. This painting has been displayed as recently as Oct of 2014. It is part of the collection at Laguna Art Museum. He shared, during a visit with family in the early 1980s that the date on the newspaper Francesca is reading, was the date he completed the painting.
According to an article, days after his death, by the LA Times:
"In the mid 1930s, Brigante gave up his financial mainstay of commercial painting and confined himself to his studio, where he created perhaps his most famous work, "Implacable Nature and Struggling Imperious Man," an epic 12-panel, 21-foot-long watercolor that is currently in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Although Brigante experimented with other techniques and themes in the 1940s, he ultimately returned to his exploration of Chinese watercolor methods in an ongoing series of large-scale paintings entitled "Tidepool," "Space Explorations" and "Burnt Mountain.""
Some of his paintings still hang in the households of many Brigante descendants. The majority of his works are parts of collections in art museums all over Los Angeles County.
He was a member of the Los Angeles Art Students League, and found a mentor in famed Modernist painter Rex Slinkard, and began studying a broad spectrum of art history, particularly Chinese philosophies and art forms.
In 1922 He married Francesca Johnson. His paintings would often bear the dedication: "For my Francesca." They had no children of their own, but were beloved by their numerous nieces and nephews. Francesca was the subject of a painting called "Cynical" in 1933. This painting has been displayed as recently as Oct of 2014. It is part of the collection at Laguna Art Museum. He shared, during a visit with family in the early 1980s that the date on the newspaper Francesca is reading, was the date he completed the painting.
According to an article, days after his death, by the LA Times:
"In the mid 1930s, Brigante gave up his financial mainstay of commercial painting and confined himself to his studio, where he created perhaps his most famous work, "Implacable Nature and Struggling Imperious Man," an epic 12-panel, 21-foot-long watercolor that is currently in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Although Brigante experimented with other techniques and themes in the 1940s, he ultimately returned to his exploration of Chinese watercolor methods in an ongoing series of large-scale paintings entitled "Tidepool," "Space Explorations" and "Burnt Mountain.""
Some of his paintings still hang in the households of many Brigante descendants. The majority of his works are parts of collections in art museums all over Los Angeles County.
Nick Brigante was part of Los Angeles' founding generation of Modernist artists. His career spanned seven decades, during which he captured on canvas the wildlife of Arroyo Seco and Elysian Park, the natural beauty of the Hollywood Hills and the budding development of a young Los Angeles.
He was a member of the Los Angeles Art Students League, and found a mentor in famed Modernist painter Rex Slinkard, and began studying a broad spectrum of art history, particularly Chinese philosophies and art forms.
In 1922 He married Francesca Johnson. His paintings would often bear the dedication: "For my Francesca." They had no children of their own, but were beloved by their numerous nieces and nephews. Francesca was the subject of a painting called "Cynical" in 1933. This painting has been displayed as recently as Oct of 2014. It is part of the collection at Laguna Art Museum. He shared, during a visit with family in the early 1980s that the date on the newspaper Francesca is reading, was the date he completed the painting.
According to an article, days after his death, by the LA Times:
"In the mid 1930s, Brigante gave up his financial mainstay of commercial painting and confined himself to his studio, where he created perhaps his most famous work, "Implacable Nature and Struggling Imperious Man," an epic 12-panel, 21-foot-long watercolor that is currently in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Although Brigante experimented with other techniques and themes in the 1940s, he ultimately returned to his exploration of Chinese watercolor methods in an ongoing series of large-scale paintings entitled "Tidepool," "Space Explorations" and "Burnt Mountain.""
Some of his paintings still hang in the households of many Brigante descendants. The majority of his works are parts of collections in art museums all over Los Angeles County.
He was a member of the Los Angeles Art Students League, and found a mentor in famed Modernist painter Rex Slinkard, and began studying a broad spectrum of art history, particularly Chinese philosophies and art forms.
In 1922 He married Francesca Johnson. His paintings would often bear the dedication: "For my Francesca." They had no children of their own, but were beloved by their numerous nieces and nephews. Francesca was the subject of a painting called "Cynical" in 1933. This painting has been displayed as recently as Oct of 2014. It is part of the collection at Laguna Art Museum. He shared, during a visit with family in the early 1980s that the date on the newspaper Francesca is reading, was the date he completed the painting.
According to an article, days after his death, by the LA Times:
"In the mid 1930s, Brigante gave up his financial mainstay of commercial painting and confined himself to his studio, where he created perhaps his most famous work, "Implacable Nature and Struggling Imperious Man," an epic 12-panel, 21-foot-long watercolor that is currently in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Although Brigante experimented with other techniques and themes in the 1940s, he ultimately returned to his exploration of Chinese watercolor methods in an ongoing series of large-scale paintings entitled "Tidepool," "Space Explorations" and "Burnt Mountain.""
Some of his paintings still hang in the households of many Brigante descendants. The majority of his works are parts of collections in art museums all over Los Angeles County.
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