‘San Geronimo’ Drawing, Brewster Brockmann, Boca de Tomatlan’, 2017
‘San Geronimo’ 2017. Based on Old Mexican Retablos (See Color Illustration)
Brewster Brockmann, Boca de Tomatlan, Mexico. Graphite on Found Paper, 10×10 cm. Signed, Titled & Dated.
Private Collection.
Brewster Brockmann stands out in many ways as an artist, but one of the most obvious is in the way he is equally proficient at creating paintings and sculptures, many of which have the feeling of ancient pieces in a museum of anthropology.
These drawings offer the themes of nature one might expect from an artist living in a jungle setting at the foot of a mountain and next to a river emptying into the ocean 150 yards away.
San Geronimo is also often depicted with a lion, in reference to the popular hagiographical belief that he had tamed a lion in the wilderness by healing its paw. The source for the story may actually have been the second century Roman tale of Androcles, or confusion with the exploits of Saint Gerasimus (Jerome in later Latin is “Geronimus”).