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Update:

Your continued support as we move toward the next phase of the restoration of the Brooks-Park Arts and Nature Center is critical to its success. Please reach out to our town officials with your thoughts and support:

SUPERVISOR PETER VAN SCOYOC: PVanScoyoc@EHamptonNY.Gov
DEPUTY SUPERVISOR KATHEE BURKE-GONZALEZ:   KBurke-Gonzalez@EHamptonNY.Gov
COUNCILMAN DAVID LYS:   DLys@EHamptonNY.Gov
COUNCILWOMAN SYLVIA OVERBY:   SOverby@EHamptonNY.Gov
COUNCILWOMAN CATE ROGERS:   CRogers@EHamptonNY.Gov

The mission of the Brooks-Park Arts and Nature Center is to experience the beauty of the natural world while celebrating the artistic legacies of James Brooks (1906-1992) and Charlotte Park (1918-2010) through the restoration of their home and studios and the woodlands surrounding them. Located in the Springs section of East Hampton, New York, the center will focus on inventive and inclusive educational programming, arts-related activities, and the discovery, research, and experience of its eleven undisturbed acres of natural habitat, bringing focus to these two acclaimed artists, the unique community in which they lived and worked, and the trail system that runs through parts of the property.

Charlotte Park and James Brooks were both abstract painters whose works
were vital to the development of Abstract Expressionism.

click on images for info

RASALUS 1959 oil and house paint on canvas 65.875x69.875 Whitney Coll copy.jpg

James Brooks, RASALUS, 1959

oil and house paint on canvas, Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Charlotte Park, UNTITLED, c 1959

oil on canvas, 50 x 50 in, private collection, image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery

James Brooks, SULL, 1961

oil on canvas, 78 x 92 in; image courtesy Van Doren Waxter Gallery, NY

UNTITLED Color collage II c 1957 collage and gouache on paper 22.5 x 28.5 copy.jpg

Charlotte Park, UNTITLED (color collage II), c 1957

collage and gouache on paper, 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 in, image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery, NY

GANT 1955 oc 53.25x62.5 Coll Albright Knox copy.jpg

James Brooks, GANT, 1955

oil on canvas, 53 1/4 x 62 1/2 in, Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Charlotte Park, #25, 1951

oil on canvas, 37 x 46 in, private collection, image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery, NY

James Brooks, FANDRON, 1972

acrylic on canvas, 16 x 21 in

UNTITLED (Black White and Brown III) c 1955 collage gouache on paper 22.75x28.5 copy.jpg

Charlotte Park, UNTITLED (Black White and Brown III), c 1955

collage, gouache on paper, 22 3/4 x 28 1/2 in, image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery, NY

James Brooks, RASALUS, 1959

oil and house paint on canvas, Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Charlotte Park, UNTITLED, c 1959

oil on canvas, 50 x 50 in, private collection, image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery

James Brooks, SULL, 1961

oil on canvas, 78 x 92 in; image courtesy Van Doren Waxter Gallery, NY

Charlotte Park, UNTITLED (color collage II), c 1957

collage and gouache on paper, 22 1/2 x 28 1/2 in, image courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery, NY

James Brooks, GANT, 1955

oil on canvas, 53 1/4 x 62 1/2 in, Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Selected images of the artists and their home off Neck Path in Springs, East Hampton:

The Brooks-Park home

The grounds

Charlotte Park's studio

The Brooks-Park home

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BROOKS-PARK ARTS AND NATURE CENTER

Charlotte Park and James Brooks were both abstract painters whose works were vital to the development of Abstract Expressionism.

Selected images of the artists and their home off Neck Path in Springs, East Hampton:

email: bpartsandnature@gmail.com

Charlotte Park and James Brooks were both abstract painters whose works
were vital to the development of Abstract Expressionism.