About Brookie Maxwell
Lived 1956 – 2015 (aged 59). Brookie Maxwell was an American painter, sculptor and curator.
Early life Maxwell was born in Manhattan, New York, to parents William Maxwell, a literary editor for The New Yorker magazine, and Emily Noyes, a poet.
Career In 1986, Maxwell founded the Creative Arts Workshops to serve children living in New York's homeless shelters and welfare-subsidized hotels. The best-known project of the Workshops was "Calle de Suenos", or "Street of Dreams" in English, a 5000-square-foot mural on Lexington avenue near 124th street, New York.
In 1999, Maxwell founded Gallery 138 in Soho, New York City, to represent emerging artists.
Her work is included in the art collections of the US Department of State and the Brooklyn Museum.
She died of ovarian cancer in 2015.
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Who was Brookie Maxwell?
American artist and curator (1956-2015)
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Brookie Maxwell was born on 15 October 1956 in New York City.
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Brookie Maxwell died on 4 November 2015.
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Brookie Maxwell was a painter, sculptor and curator.
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Brookie Maxwell was American.
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