About James E. Brewton
James Edward Brewton was an American painter and printmaker who synthesized expressionism, graffiti and Pataphysics. At The Print Club (now The Print Center), where Brewton worked on weekends, he first saw the work of Asger Jorn and was greatly impressed by the wildly expressive and colorful work of the CoBrA group. Brewton's work won awards and prizes, and he was championed by critics in Philadelphia and New York while still a student. "Mr. Brewton's portrait of Edgar Allan Poe was shown at Woodmere Art Museum in 2012 and, in 2014, his first solo exhibition in 43 years was mounted at Slought. Although Brewton's style became expressionistic and inspired by graffiti, his training was traditional.
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