Paul Brach (March 13, 1924 - November 16, 2007) was an American abstract painter, as well as a lecturer and educator.

[3] Paul Brach was born in New York City[4] and was raised in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

[5] By 1951 they moved back to New York City and befriended many of the artists in the downtown Abstract expressionist New York School, including Joan Mitchell, Larry Rivers, Knox Martin and Michael Goldberg.

[4] "In 1967 I was offered the chair of a new art department at the University of California at San Diego.

I mean there are artists like Bob Irwin, and Ed Kienholz, and Larry Bell, and people who I think are doing good work.

What really knocked me out was that the makers of Mary Poppins are inadvertently funding something that's going to make Easy Rider."