Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903–1993) was an American Abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
[1] Eldred was born on February 19, 1903, in Climax, Michigan.
His teachers included Guy Pène du Bois, Thomas Hart Benton, Stanley William Hayter, Louis Ritman, and John Vanderpoel.,[1] Eldred was strongly influenced by Werner Drewes.
[2] Eldred taught printmaking[3] at the Brooklyn Museum Art School from 1933 through 1938[2] under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration.
[1] His work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Guggenheim, and the National Gallery of Art,[4][1] Eldred died on May 21, 1993, in Polk, Pennsylvania.