Bradley Walker Tomlin (August 19, 1899 – May 11, 1953) belonged to the generation of New York School Abstract Expressionist artists.
He participated in the famous ‘’Ninth Street Show.’’ According to John I. H. Baur,[1] Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Tomlin’s "life and his work were marked by a persistent, restless striving toward perfection, in a truly classical sense of the word, towards that “inner logic” of form which would produce a total harmony, an unalterable rightness, a sense of miraculous completion...It was only during the last five years of his life that the goal was fully reached, and his art flowered with a sure strength and authority."
[citation needed] Tomlin attended Syracuse University, College of Fine Arts, New York from 1917-1921, studying under Dr. Jeannette Scott and Professor Carl T. Hawley.
[citation needed] On Sunday, May 10, 1953, Tomlin drove with his friends to a party at the Jackson Pollocks’ house on Long Island, from which he returned about midnight, feeling ill.[2] The following day, he was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital where he suffered a heart attack and died at seven that night.
[3][4] Research Information System; Archival, Manuscript and Photographic Collections, Bradley Walker Tomlin.