Biography

Elizabeth Brandon is an accomplished painter in the Poetic Realist tradition. She is dedicated to practicing the Old Master principles of capturing light and atmosphere on her canvases. Brandon reveals a natural beauty in her culinary subjects and a true poetic interpretation of her relationship to her subjects.

After graduation with a BFA from the University of Georgia, Brandon moved from her native Nashville, TN, to New York City to study drawing and oil painting at the Art Students League of New York. Under the tutelage of renowned painter, Frank Mason, she studied the concepts and techniques of the Dutch Masters and Rubens and even those of the Hudson River Painters after five years of intense learning. While living in New York as an art student, Brandon worked in the League office under the mentorship of Rosina Florio, director, with whom she formed a lifelong friendship until Florio's death.

Since returning to Nashville twenty-six years ago, she has shown her work nationally and she has won numerous awards for her paintings. Most recently, in 2005, she was awarded the Helen deCozen Prize for Floral given by the AAPL Club's National Invitational Exhibition where she is a Fellow Artist. Elizabeth Brandon is a member of the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club for realist women painters as well as a life member of the Art Students League. She has been the cover artist for the popular Cook's Illustrated magazine for the past seven years. Her paintings reside in private collections throughout the US and abroad. Her most recent one person exhibition, titled Summer Harvest was held at the Warm Springs Gallery in Warm Springs, VA, 2006. Gibson Galleries in Carmel, CA, exhibited her collection of Inspirations from the Garden, paintings that graced the covers of Cook's Illustrated magazine.

Brandon lives with her artist husband, Joseph H. Sulkowski, and together they work in their studio in the country. Their two children, Katie and James, are pursuing their creative careers in publishing and animation.

 

ASL - The Art Students League of New York is the historic art institution that opened on 57th Street, 130 years ago. The newly envisioned art school abandoned pedantic approaches to art and championed the idea that any serious student can come to study art from professional artists in a classroom atmosphere with live models. This beloved institution has spawned many famous American artists such as William Merritt Chase, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Norman Rockwell.

American Artist Professional League in New York - The mission of this non profit organization: To advance the cause of the fine arts in America, through the promotion of high standards of beauty, integrity and craftsmanship in painting, sculpture and the graphic arts.