1906-1992

1906, born St. Louis, Missouri
1923 – 25, Studied at Southern Methodist University, Dallas
1936 – 42, WPA Project with Jackson Pollock and Philip Guston
1992, died East Hampton, New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Peridot Gallery, New York, 1950.
Peridot Gallery, New York, 1951.
Miller-Pollard Gallery, Seattle, 1952.
Peridot Gallery, New York, 1952.
Peridot Gallery, New York, 1953.
Stable Gallery, New York, 1954.
Stable Gallery, New York, 1957.
Stable Gallery, New York, 1959.
Kootz Gallery, New York, 1961.
Kootz Gallery, New York, 1962.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (traveled to Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Walker Museum of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Washington Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, DC; University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles), Retrospective Exhibition, 1963.
Kootz Gallery, New York, 1965.
Philadelphia Art Alliance, Pennsylvania, 1966.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1968.
Southampton College of Long Island University, New York, 1968.
Berenson Gallery, Miami, 1969.
The Century Association, New York, 1970.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1971.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 1972.
Cooper Union, New York, 1975.
Galleria Lorenzelli, Milan, 1975.
Martha Jackson Gallery and Finch College Museum of Art, New York (traveled to Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York; Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan; Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; University of Connecticut, Storrs), Retrospective of Drawings and Paintings, 1975.
Faire Intonational d’Art Contemporain, Paris, 1976.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1976.
Robinson Galleries, Houston, 1976.
Summit Art Center, New Jersey, 1976.
Carrone Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1977.
Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, New York, 1977.
Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, New York, 1978.
Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, 1978.
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1979.
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, 1979.Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1981.
Himmelfarb Gallery, Watermill, New York, 1981.
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1983.
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Retrospective, 1983.
Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, New York, 1984.
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1986.
The Century Association, New York, 1988.
The Hecksher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, 1988.
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1988.
Berry Hill Galleries, New York, 1989.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York, 1992.
Washburn Gallery, New York, James Brooks: The 1950s, 1993.
Washburn Gallery, New York, 1994.
Washburn Gallery, New York, James Brooks, Paintings on Paper, 1950s – 60s, 1994 – 95.
Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1997.
Washburn Gallery, James Brooks – Paintings and Drawings from the 1960s, 1998.
American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, James Brooks, Works from the 50s and 60s, 1999.
Washburn Gallery, James Brooks – Paintings and Drawings from 1949 – 1951, 1999.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, James Brooks: In Retrospect, 2001.
Washburn Gallery, New York, James Brooks – Five Decades, 2002.
Washburn Gallery, New York, James Brooks: Six Decades, 2002.
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, Selected Paintings 1960 – 85, 2003.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, James Brooks Selected Works 1948 – 1986, 2004.
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, James Brooks: A Survey of Small Paintings, 2005.
Lorenzelli Arte, Milan, Omaggio a James Brooks, 2005.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, James Brooks at the Dallas Museum of Art: A Celebration, 2006.
Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006.
Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, James Brooks  Portfolio, 2006.
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, James Brooks: Black and White + Color, 2008.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, James Brooks: Work from the 70s, 2008.
Greenberg Van Doren, James Brooks: Geometry and Gesture, Selected Works from 1968 – 1979, 2009.
Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, James Brooks: Paintings from the 1940s, 2010 – 2011.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, James Brooks, 2013.
Van Doren Waxter, New York, Paintings and Works on Paper 1945 – 1949, 2014.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Feragil Gallery, New York, 1933.
Frank Rehn Galleries, New York, 1933.
Feragil Gallery, New York, 1934.
Morton Gallery, New York, 1934.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Graphic Art, 1936.
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, 1946.
Grand Central Moderns, New York, Critics Choice, 1946.
Mortimer Levitt Gallery, New York, 1946.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Abstract and Surrrealist American Art, 1947 – 48.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1950.
Brooklyn Museum, New York, International Watercolor Exhibition, 1951.
Nebraska Art Assocaition, Lincoln, 61st Exhibition, 1951.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 40 American Painters 1940 – 1950, 1951
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1951.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh International, 1952.
University of Illinois, Urbana, Contemporary American Painting, 1953.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1953.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Annual, 1953.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy Annual, 1954.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Younger American Painters, 1954.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1954.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Annual, 1954.
Artists Gallery, New York, Graphics Gala, 1955.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh International, 1955.
University of Illinois, Urbana, Contemporary American Painting, 1955.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, California; University of California, Los Angeles; Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado; City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri), The New Decade, 35 American Painters and Sculptors, 1955.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1955.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 12 Americans, 1956.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Sculpture, Watercolor and Drawing Annual, 1956.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Acquisitions 1954 – 1957, 1957.
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 62nd American Exhibition, 1957.
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 63rd Annual Exhibition, 1957.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, American Paintings, 1945 – 1957, 1957.
Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Fourth Bienniel, 1957.
Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York, 1957.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1957.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh International, 1958.
Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, 1958.
Osaka Festival, Japan, The International Art of a New Era: United States of America, Japan, Europe, 1958.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Jong Amerika Schilder, 1958.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, American Painting, 1958.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition Sculpture, Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, 1958.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1958.
Art Nouva, Tornio, Italy, 1959.
The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, 26 Biennial Exhibition, 1959.
Kasel, Germany, Documenta II, 1959.
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1959.
Musee Nationale D’Arte Moderne, Paris, Jackson Pollock et las Nouvelle Peinture Americain, 1959.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, New York and Paris, Painting in the 50s, 1959.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New American Painting (traveled to Milan, Italy; Basel, Switzerland; Madrid, Spain; Berlin, Germany), 1959.
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Fifteen Invited Works, 1959.
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, Contemporary American Drawings, Rensselaer, 1959.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Inaugural Selection, 1959.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1959.
Biennial of Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1960.
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, Avant-Garde Paintings, 1960.
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Patrick B. McGinnis, 1960.
Kootz Gallery, New York, American and European Artists, 1960.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Business Buys American Art, 1960.
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 64th American Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, 1961.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh International, 1961.
Parke-Bernet, New York, Contemporary Modern Paintings, Drawings, Collages, Objects, Sculpture, 1961.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, American Abstract Expressionists & Imagists, 1961.
St. Paul Gallery & St. Paul School of Art, Minnesota, 1961.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, East Hampton Collectors, 1962.
Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela, 1962.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Annual Exhibit of Painting and Sculpture, 1962.
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, Artists of the Kootz Gallery, 1962.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, American Art Since 1950, 1962.
Seattle World’s Fair, Washington, Art Since 1950, 1962.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Summer Selection, 1962.
Cleveland Museum, Ohio, 1963.
Dunn International Exhibition (traveled to New Brunswick, Canada; London), 1963.
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, Dibujos y acuarelas abstractos de Los Estados Unidos, 1963.
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Abstract Watercolors and Drawings, 1963.
Instituto Panamericano de Arte, Panama City, Drawings and Watercolors, 1963.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Recent Acquisitions, 1963.
San Francisco Museum of Art, California, 1963.
University of Illinois, Urbana, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1963.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Contemporary Watercolors and Drawings, 1963.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, A Selection from the Collection of the University of Nebraska, 1963.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1963.
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1963.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh International, 1964.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Festival of the Arts, 1964.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, Accessions and Proposals, 1964.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Annual Exhibition, 1964.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts (traveled to Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York; Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana; Atlanta Association, Geogia; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky; Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan), New Directions in American Painting, 1964.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Van Gogh and Expressionism, 1964.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Between the Fairs, 1939 – 1964, 1964.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Friends Collect, 1964.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 1965.
American Federation of Arts, New York, Inform and Interpret, 1965.
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1965.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Sculpture & Painting Today, 1965.
Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, Six Artists in Sarasota, 1965.
McCluny Gallery, Knoxville, Tennessee, 4th Annual National Invitation Exhibition, 1966.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Annual Exhibition, 1966.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Art of the United States 1670 – 1966, 1966.
180 Beacon Hill, Boston, The 180 Beacon Collection of Contemporary Art, 1967.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Paintings from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1967.
Gallery without Walls, Buffalo, New York, Grand Opening of Our New Gallery, 1967.
Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Hawaii, Signals of the 60s, 1967.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 200 Years of Watercolor Painting in America, 1967.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Painting Annual, 1967.
Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana, Paintings & Sculpture, 1968.
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Painting as Painting, 1968.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, American Painting in the Market Today, 1968.
Kent State University, Ohio, 2nd Kent Invitational, 1968.
Miami Art Center, Florida, Workshop Masters, Past & Present, 1968.
New York State Council of the Arts and State Colleges of New York, 1968.
Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York, Martha Jackson Collection, 1968.
Star Turtle Gallery, New York, Tenants of Sam Wapnowitz, 1968.
Alonzo Gallery, New York, Mr. & Mrs. Painting & Sculpture, 1969.
Art Association of Indianapolis, Indiana, 1969 Paintings & Sculpture, 1969.
John Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1969.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 20th Century Art from the Nelson Rockefeller Collection, 1969.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation, 1969.
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, The Owens-Corning Collection, 1969.
Wilmington Art Center, Delaware, Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture from New York Galleries, 1969.
Boston University, Massachusetts, Centeniel-American Artists of the Sixties, 1970.
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, The Abstract Tradition, 1970.
Henderson Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, Watermedia Painting, 1970.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Christmas Group Show, 1970.
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, The Recent Years, 1970.
New School for Social Research, Art Center, New York, Museum Leaders Collect, 1970.
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Collages by American Artists, 1971.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museum Pieces of the Post-War Era, 1971.
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, Artists of Suffolk County, Contemporary Prints, 1972.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition, 1972.
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Newly Elected Members, 1973.
Blanton Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Visual R & D, A Corporation Collects: The Ciba-Geigy Loan Collection, 1973.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, 21 over 60, 1973.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, The Guild Hall Collection, 1973.
McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, Collector’s Gallery VII Exhibition, 1973.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, American Art Mid-Century Exhibition, 1973.
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Art on Paper 1973, 1973.
The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park (traveled to Finch College Museum of Art, New York; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York), The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, 1973 – 74.
Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, Six Artists of the Hamptons, 1974.
The Century Association, New York, Members Exhibition, 1974.
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, 1974.
The Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York (traveled to State University Art Museum, State University of New York, Albany), Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, 1974 – 75.
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Collector’s Show, 1975.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 34th Biennial, 1975.
Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, Michigan, Drawings by Contemporary American Artists, 1975.
The Flint Institute of Art, Michigan, Drawings by Contemporary American Artists, 1975.
Livingstone-Learmonth Gallery, New York, Six American Painters, 1975.
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, Color on Paper, 1975.
Brooklyn Museum, New York, 30 Years of American Printmaking, 1976.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, American Prints and Posters, 1976.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Texas, Mural Size Paintings, 1976.
Grace Borgenicht, Leo Castelli, Xavier Fourcade, Inc, New York, 300 Artists to the Support of the New York Studio School Drawing Benefit, 1976.
Grey Art Gallery, New York University (traveled to Civic Museum of Udine, Italy), Project Rebuild, 1976.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Artist and East Hampton 100 Year Retrospective, 1976.
Heckscter Museum. Huntington, New York, Artists of Suffolk County Part X, 1976.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Three Decades of American Art from New England Collections: A Retrospective of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1946 – 1976, 1976.
Katonah Gallery, New York, American Paintings 1900 – 1976, Part III, Abstract Expressionism and Later Movements 1955 – 1975, 1976.
Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, New York, Lowe Art Gallery's Contemporary Painting - Review of the New York Gallery Art Scene, 1974-1975, 1976.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Salute to ’76, 1976.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,  The Art in Poetry (drawing for a poem by Stanley Kunitz, 1976.
Wichita Falls Museum, Texas, Works on Paper from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, 1976.
Empire State Plaza Cultural Center, Albany, New York, New York and the State of Art, 1977.
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Artists Salute to Skowhegan, 1977.
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, Works on Paper from the Ciba Geigy Collection, 1977.
Meadows Museum of Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1977.
Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York, 20th Century Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977.
Parsons School of Design, New York, New York WPA Artists, Then and Now, 1977.
Perth, Australia, Perth International Survey of Drawings, 1977.
S.G. Matthews Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, Figure to Abstraction, 1977.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, American Post-War Painting from the Guggenheim Collection, 1977.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Thirty Years of American Art, 1954 – 1975, Selections from the Permanent Collection and the Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest, 1977.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, From the Guild Hall Collection, 1978.
Hofstra University, New York, Art for the People, New Deal Murals on Long Island, 1978.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, Great Graphics, 1978.
American Cultural Center of the US Embassy, Paris, The Pollock Years, 1946 – 1956, 1979.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, The Fiftieth Anniversary, 1979.
Ingebar Gallery, New York, Past, Present, and Peculiar, 1979.
Montclair Museum of Art, New Jersey, Drawing the Line, 1979.
Pensacola Museum, Florida, 1979.
Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, Survey of Modern American Art, 1979.
Tampa Bay Art Center, Florida, Two Decades of Abstraction, 1979.
Civici Musei Gallerie de Storia e Arte, Commune di Udine, Italy, Arte Americana Contemporanea, 1980.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Prints, 1980, 1980.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1980.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Collection, 1900 – 1980, 1980.
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, The Pollock Years, 1946 – 1956, 17 Abstract Artists of East Hampton, 1980.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, American Painting, 1930 – 80, 1981.
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 5 Living Artists who were on the Federal WPA Arts Project Who Have Achieved Wide Recognition (with de Kooning, Neel, Bolotowsky, and Lassaw), 1981.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, New York Museums Salute Guild Hall, 1981.
Landmark Gallery, New York, Drawings, 1981.
Rice University, Houston, Texas, Aspects of Abstraction, 1981.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Connecticut, Abstract Expressionist Lives (with de Kooning, Motherwell, Pousette-Dart, and Stamos), 1981.
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Images of Texas, 1983.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 25 Artists, 1983.
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Chase Manhattan, The First Ten Years of Collecting, 1983.
Phoenix II, Washington, DC, Drawings, 1983.
Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, The Hampton Scene: Then & Now, 1984.
The Armstrong Gallery, New York, The Artist’s Mark – Drawings, 1984.
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, Then & Now, Part II, 1984.
Ingber Gallery, New York, The Return of Abstraction, 1984.
Amarillo Art Center, Texas, Eight Modern Masters, 1985.
Arbitrage Gallery, New York (traveled to Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York), A Show of Hampton Artists, 1985.
Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California, Painting as Landscape, 1985.
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, East Hampton Star 100th Anniversary Exhibition, 1985.
Ingber Gallery, New York, Survival of the Fittest, 1985.
National Academy of Design, New York, Member’s Exhibition, 1985.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Martha Jackson Memorial Exhibition, 1985.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, Curator’s Choice, 1985.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, Painting as Landscape, 1985.
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Art on Paper, 1985.
Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, Free Space: Artist’s Use of Floating in Two-Dimensional Art, 1986.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York, Opening Exhibition, 1986.
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York, Curator’s Choice, 1986.
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Portraits from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1987.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York, Contemporary Editions, Prints, and Sculpture, 1987.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, American Masters, 1987.
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, Looking at the WPA, 1987.
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, Styles of Painting from the New York School – Selections from the Ciba-Geigy Collection, 1987.
Portland Museum of Art, Maine, The Modernist Tradition: Painting and Sculpture from the 1950s to the 1980s, 1987.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Connecticut, Color: Pure and Simple, 1987.
CDS Gallery, New York, The Irascible, 1988.
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Drawings from the East End, 1940 – 88, 1988.
Bernice Stein Baum Gallery, New York, 1989.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, Works from the Museum Collection, 1989.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York, Artist-Photographer-Artist, 1990.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, The East Hampton Avant-Garde, 1990.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, Aspects of Collage, 1991.
Renee Fotouhi Fine Arts, East Hampton, New York, Black & White, 20th Century Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings, and Prints, 1991.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York, 4 Solo Exhibitions: Jorg Madlener, Elaine de Kooning, Syd Solomon, James Brooks, 1992.
Renee Fotouhi Gallery, East Hampton, New York, 20th Century Prints of the East End, 1992.
The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, Paths to Discover: The New York School, Sydney Mishkin Gallery, 1992.
Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, American Vanguard, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner & Friends, 1992.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York, Multiples, 1993.
Benton Gallery, Southampton, New  York, Wall to Wall, 1993.
Bill Bace Gallery, Southampton, New York, Arnold Hoffmann, The Screen Print Workshop, 1993.
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia (traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Museum of Art, Tokyo), Abstract Expressionism: Works on Paper, 1993.
Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Drawing: A Contemporary View, 1994.
Sydney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, Reclaiming Artists of the New York School, 1994.
Washburn Gallery, New York, Major Paintings and Works on Paper: James Brooks, Bill Jensen, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, 1994.
Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, New York, The Matter of Synthesis, Collage and Assemblage, 1995.
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, Abstract Expressionists, ‘40s, ‘50s, & ‘60s, 1995.
The Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York, Silkscreen, Arnold Hoffman Jr. and the Art of Print, 1995.
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, Power and Patronage: State Sponsored Art in the 1930s, 1995.
Washburn Gallery, New York, Scapes: Land or Sea, 1995.
Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, Old Friends, 1996.
The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s, 1996.
Washburn Gallery, New York, Major Paintings, Sculpture, and Work on Paper, 1996.
Abstract Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Pintura Estadounidense Expresionismo, 1996 – 97.
DC Moore Gallery, New York, A Tribute to the Grace Borgenicht Gallery, The 1950s, 1997.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan), Founders and Heirs of Art, 1997.
State University of New York, Stony Brook, More than Mount: Selections from the Permanent Collection, 1997.
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, East Hampton Artists: Seen and Scene, 1998.
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, A Defining Generation, Then and Now: 1961 and 2001, 2001.
Washburn Gallery, New York, AAA, AMA, WPA, and THE TEN, 2002.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, An American Celebration – Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection, 2003.
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, Black & White, 2004.
CDS Gallery, New York, The Irascibles: On Paper, 2004 – 05.
Opalka Gallery, Albany, New York, Another View: New York School, 2005.
Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, New York, Artists and Nature in Eastern Long Island: 1940s to Today, 2005.
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Until It Makes Sense, 2006.
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, Pre Post: American Abstraction 1940s – 1960s, 2006.
Tate Britain, London, Drawing from Turner, 2006 – 07.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, September Selections, 2007.
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, East End Artists, Past and Present, 2007 – 08.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Abstraction: Summer 2008, 2008.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, Mostly Black and White, 2008.
American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich, The Gallery Selection, 2009.
Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, Collect with Us, 2009.
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, In Confluence: James Brooks and Giorgio Cavallon, 2009.
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence, 2009.
Art First Contemporary Art, London, Show One, 2010.
Gallery Primo Alonso, London, Gods in the Details, 2010.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, Out of the Back Room, 2010.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Abstract Expressionist New York, 2010 – 11.
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, Unlikely Friends: James Brooks & Dan Flavin, 2012.
Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York, Pulling at Polarities, 2012.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, Spring Into Summer, 2012.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 2012.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Detroit Institute of Arts, Texas
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fordham University, New York
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Rockefeller University, New York
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York