George Brandt Bridgman (1865 - 1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some 45 years.

In his youth, Bridgman studied the arts under painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and later with Gustave Boulanger. For most of his life Bridgman lived in New York where he taught anatomy and figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York. Among his many thousands of students were the American cartoonist Will Eisner and Norman Rockwell; in his autobiography, My Adventures as an Illustrator, Rockwell spoke highly of Bridgman. His successor at Art Students League was Robert Beverly Hale.

Bridgman is notable for using a cube as a base for figures' heads, as opposed to a sphere like most other artists.^[1]

[edit] Notable students

Artists who studied with Bridgeman include: Gifford Beal, McClelland Barclay, Chon Day, Will Eisner, Elias Goldberg, Seymour Fogel, Clark Hulings, Jack Kamen, Andrew Loomis, Anita Malfatti, Paul Manship, Peter Max, Earl Moran, Kimon Nicolaïdes, Corrado Parducci, Ulysses Ricci, Norman Rockwell, Ernie Schroeder, Archie Boyd Teater and John Vassos.

[edit] Works

Many of Bridgman's standard books on anatomy for artists are still in print via Dover Publications.

• Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life
• Constructive Anatomy
• The Human Machine
• Bridgman's Life Drawing
• Heads, Features and Faces
• The Book of a Hundred Hands

[edit] External links

• Amazon.com Books by Bridgman
• Art Students League of New York
• Dover Publications

[edit] References

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