Moe Brooker

Moe Brooker was an esteemed African American painter, educator, and printmaker, known for his abstract art that evoked the rhythmic and improvisational spirit of jazz. Brooker’s paintings feature overlapping patches of dense gestures layered with calligraphic lines. The artist was born in Philadelphia, where he later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and then at the Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University, where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Throughout his career, Brooker held notable faculty positions at institutions such as the Parsons School of Design and Moore College of Art and Design. His artworks can be found in the collections of the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others. He died in 2022, aged 81.