Paintings
{Please note that most of Jim's art has not yet been professionally photographed.}
"To Vera" by Jim Brewton: a lyrical beauty we learned about in March 2014. In April we found out it was painted over "Tunnel Under the English Channel."
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Jim Brewton painted over this work, "Tunnel Under the English Channel," but we found a photograph of the piece. The painting over this one is "To Vera."
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Jim Brewton's portrait of Charles Baudelaire (private New Jersey collection)
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Jim Brewton's portrait of Arthur Rimbaud, "Une Saison en Enfer" (ca. 1959)
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Jim Brewton's portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, n.d. Shown at Woodmere Art Museum, 2012.
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Jim Brewton's "Homage to Modi" [Amedeo Modigliani], n.d. Shown at Slought, Philadelphia, 2014.
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Portrait of Barbara Holland by James E. Brewton
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James E. Brewton. "X" (1966) Collection of Jason Brewton Broede.
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Self-portrait by James E. Brewton
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"An aspect of myself" by James E. Brewton (1962)
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Jim Brewton's "The American Dream-Girl" (private Philadelphia collection)
James E. Brewton. "The Bombardment of Kobenhavn by Vice Admiral Lord Nelson in 1801: The Mad Laughter of Courage." (1966-67) mixed media on canvas, 49"x86" (detail). Brewton considered this work his masterpiece; interestingly, Brewton's Kobenhavn paintings and collages spring from direct artist-to-artist links among Jim Brewton, Asger Jorn, and Pablo Picasso. Jorn's "Stalingrad, le non-lieu ou le fou-rire du courage" (1957-1960, 1967, 1972), collection Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, DK, is a response to Picasso's
"Guernica" (1937), collection Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Jorn was studying with Fernand Leger in Paris when Picasso was painting "Guernica," and Jorn helped Le Corbusier with his "Temps Nouveaux" pavilion for the World Expo, where "Guernica" was displayed at the Spanish Pavilion. Jorn visited Picasso in Antibes in 1946. In 1962-63 and 1965, Brewton spent time with Jorn in Denmark, and the idea for Brewton's "Bombardment of Kobenhavn" was sparked, with references to both "Stalingrad" and "Guernica." For instance, the light bulb at the top left-center of "Guernica" is an actual working light bulb at the top right-center of "Kobenhavn," mottled with grey paint in homage to Jasper Johns's "Lightbulb I" (1958).
James E. Brewton. Asger Jorn, pour tous les hommes, oils on canvas (1964).