“23rd Walter Brooks Watercolor” Exhibit
High quality artwork will be on display in the 23rd annual Walter Brooks Memorial Watercolor Exhibit at the Rowayton Arts Center, 145 Rowayton Avenue, from January 31-February 21. Award winners selected by Sophia Gevas, director of The Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University, will be announced during an opening day reception from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Thereafter, the show will be on display from 12:00-5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 1:00-4:00 p.m. on Sundays.
Walter Brooks, who died in 1987, was a commercial artist and graphic designer. He is best known for a series of books on painting techniques and designs for at least a half dozen United States postage stamps, including an 8-cent San Juan commemorative and a 13-cent Indian head. Brooks was president of the Society of Illustrators and a member of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics. He and his wife, Lois, became members of the Rowayton Arts Center in the early 1960s. The Walter Brooks Memorial Fund, his friends at the Shore and Country Club and Lois Brooks established the Fairfield Watercolor Group.
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