D. Putnam Brinley

Daniel Putnam Brinley
Born	March 8, 1879 Newport, Rhode Island
Died	July 31, 1963 New Canaan, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Field	Murals, Landscape art
Training	Art Students League of New York, New York City
Movement	Modernism, Impressionism
Awards	Architectural League of New York Gold Medal of Honor

Daniel Putnam Brinley (March 8, 1879 – July 31, 1963^[1]) was an American muralist and painter. He was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the son of Edward Huntington Brinley and Rebecca Maitland Porter Brinley.^[1] Brinley spent his childhood at his parents' home in Cos Cob, Connecticut, where he was known affectionately as "Put". During the 1890s, he came to the attention of local artists when he watched them at work.^[2] Brinley studied at the Art Students League of New York from 1900 to 1902. While there, he studied with Bryson Burroughs, Benjamin West Clinedinst, and Henry Siddons Mowbray, and was most influenced by Kenyon Cox and John Henry Twachtman.^[2][3]

In 1904, Brinley married his childhood friend, Kathrine Gordon Sanger, whom he had begun courting during the 1890s. Kathrine would later achieve fame in her own right as an author of travel books. The two of them spent the next four years traveling through Europe, including trips to Rome, Florence, Venice, Switzerland, and Holland. They then spent nearly two years in Paris, where Daniel was influential in organizing the New Society of American Painters in Paris.^[2] Brinley had previously been an impressionist landscape painter under Twachtman's influence, but he studied art independently while abroad and began to gravitate toward the Modernist school of art.^[3]

In 1908, the Brinleys returned to the United States, and Daniel established a studio in New York City. During this period his work was heavily influenced by the modernist movement, with flattened forms and a deeper hued palette. Brinley had his first one-man show at Madison Avenue Galleries in 1910, exhibited at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery at 291, and helped organize the 1913 Armory Show. He was also a founding member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors and the Grand Central Art Galleries. In 1914 the Brinleys built a home, Datchet House, in New Canaan, Connecticut, and spent part of each year there for the remainder of their lives.^[3] Daniel earned considerable fame and profit for his murals during the 1930s.^[2] A biographical sketch of Brinley featured in the 22nd edition of Who's Who in America, issued in the early 1940s, identified him as Republican and of the Episcopalian faith.^[4]

Daniel Putnam Brinley died on July 31, 1963 in New Canaan, following a brief illness. He was survived only by his wife.^[1]

Notable works

The lobby of the Daily News Building in New York City, featuring Brinley's Great Terrestrial Globe.

At the time of Brinley's death, many obituaries noted the decorative maps that he created for Liberty Memorial, in Kansas City, Missouri.^[1] These maps, painted in 1926, continue to be a permanent exhibit in Memory Hall of the National World War I Museum, which is now part of the Memorial site.^[5] Brinley also created a mural for the Brooklyn Savings Bank, for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor of the Architectural League of New York. Finally, he created the Great Terrestrial Globe that sat in the lobby of the Daily News Building in New York City.^[6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "Biographical Material: Obituaries for Daniel Putnam Brinley, 1963". Daniel Putnam Brinley and Kathrine Sanger Brinley papers, 1879-1984, Box 1, Folder 1. Archives of American Art. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Obituaries-for-Daniel-Putnam-Brinley--184380. Retrieved July 29, 2011. 
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Shipp, Steve (1996). American art colonies, 1850-1930: a historical guide to America's original art colonies and their artists. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 20. ISBN 9780313296192. 
3. ^ ^{a b c} "Daniel Putnam Brinley and Kathrine Sanger Brinley papers, 1879-1984". Archives of American Art. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/daniel-putnam-brinley-and-kathrine-sanger-brinley-papers-6830/more. Retrieved July 29, 2011. 
4. ^ "Biographical Material: Who's Who Biographical Sketches, Daniel Putnam Brinley, 1935-1962". Daniel Putnam Brinley and Kathrine Sanger Brinley papers, 1879-1984, Box 1, Folder 5. Archives of American Art. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Who-s-Who-Biographical-Sketches-Daniel-Putnam-Brinley--184384. Retrieved July 29, 2011. 
5. ^ "Permanent Exhibits". National World War I Museum. http://www.theworldwar.org/s/110/new/index.aspx?pgid=1044&gid=1. Retrieved July 29, 2011. 
6. ^ "Biographical Material: Biographical Sketches & Chronologies, Daniel Putnam Brinley, circa 1930s-1950s". Daniel Putnam Brinley and Kathrine Sanger Brinley papers, 1879-1984, Box 1, Folder 3. Archives of American Art. http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Biographical-Sketches-Chronologies-Daniel-Putnam-Brinley--184382. Retrieved July 29, 2011. 

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Smithsonian Archive of American Art document "Daniel Putnam Brinley and Kathrine Sanger Brinley papers, 1879-1984".

External links

• Archives of American Art: Daniel Putnam Brinley and Kathrine Sanger Brinley papers, 1879-1984

Persondata
Name	Brinley, D. Putnam
Alternative names
Short description	Muralist and painter
Date of birth	March 8, 1879
Place of birth	Newport, Rhode Island
Date of death	July 31, 1963
Place of death