Abstract Composition

About The Artist: Stan Brodsky

Stan Brodsky was born in 1925-Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He was the son of a truck driver with a 5th grade education. The family lived in two rooms and endured extreme poverty during the depression. At 18 he was drafted to fight on the Western front and he served in the 100th Infantry Division, Company F. He carried artillery — mortars — and became nearly deaf later in life as a result of his proximity to gunfire. Once, during a...