George Brant Bridgman was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing.
10 Facts About George Bridgman
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George Bridgman was born in 1864 in the United Province of Canada.
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For most of his life George Bridgman lived in the United States where he taught anatomy and figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York.
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George Bridgman had taught classes at the Grand Central School of Art and at the American Bank Note Company.
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George Bridgman used box forms to represent the major masses of the figure which he would tie together with gestural lines and produce to create "wedges" or simplified interconnecting forms of the body.
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George Bridgman had been a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.
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George Bridgman died on December 16,1943, in New Rochelle, New York, after suffering from an illness for a year.
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George Bridgman was survived by his wife, Helene Leonora Bridgman and their three children.
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George Bridgman has 100 drawings in the public collection at the Norman Rockwell Museum.
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Many of George Bridgman's books are available as reprints by Dover Publications.