Artist Signatures

Leonard Brooks

Leonard Brooks (1911 - 2011) was active/lived in Ontario / Mexico, Canada.  Leonard Brooks is known for Coastal view, landscape, flowers and military genre painting.

The following information is courtesy of Jeff Kimmel, friend of the artist.  The first section was written October 2003 by John Virtue, biographer of the artist and Deputy Director, International Media Center, Florida International University.

Leonard Brooks, an official Canadian war artist during World War II, is the dean of artists in the international art colony of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he has lived for more than half a century.

Once he and his photographer-wife, Reva, settled in San Miguel in 1947, other Canadian artists such as York Wilson, Fred Taylor, Michael Forster and Fred Powell followed him there. He was not only the leading foreign artist, he was also for 25 years the director of the music department at the Mexican government's cultural center.

Born in Enfield, England, Nov. 7, 1911, Brooks attended school in Toronto and North Bay, Ontario, before dropping out at age 15 to study art. He washed dishes in the cafeteria of an Eato   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8026 characters.]  Artist bio

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