The Art of Joan Brown
Title | The Art of Joan Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Tsujimoto |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520214699 |
Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces
Joan Brown
Title | Joan Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Bishop |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 2022-11-19 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520391969 |
"This exhibition catalog accompanies a retrospective exhibition of prolific San Francisco-born painter Joan Brown (1938-1990), the first significant survey of her work in more than twenty years. Joan Brown charts the turns and devotions of a vision that was once dismissed by critics as unserious but was in fact rooted firmly in research and impassioned curiosity that remains uniquely compelling today. Deeply embedded in the Bay Area art scene, Brown drew inspiration from many sources to create a charmingly offbeat body of work that merges autobiography, fantasy, and whimsy with weightier metaphysical and spiritual imagery and themes. Featuring texts by curators Janet Bishop and Nancy Lim as well as essays by Solomon Adler, Marci Kwon, and Helen Molesworth, this lavishly illustrated book establishes Brown's relationship to the self and family, to art history, and to her wider artistic community, while examining the unique materiality of her paintings and exploring her singular vision. In addition, select Brown works will be paired with commentaries by contemporary artists ranging from friends and peers, such as Ron Nagle, to younger artists inspired by her work, such as Woody De Othello"--
Joan Brown; [exhibition
Title | Joan Brown; [exhibition PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Richardson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN |
Beautiful Shades of Brown
Title | Beautiful Shades of Brown PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Churnin |
Publisher | Creston Books |
Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2021-12-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1954354150 |
Growing up in the late 19th century, Laura Wheeler Waring didn't see any artists who looked like her. She didn't see any paintings of people who looked like her, either. As a young woman studying art in Paris, she found inspiration in the works of Matisse and Gaugin to paint the people she knew best. Back in Philadelphia, the Harmon Foundation commissioned her to paint portraits of accomplished African-Americans. Her portraits still hang in Washington DC's National Portrait Gallery, where children of all races can admire the beautiful shades of brown she captured.
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
Title | Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina PDF eBook |
Author | Brenda Dixon Gottschild |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 413 |
Release | 2016-04-29 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1137512350 |
Founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO) and the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts, Joan Myers Brown's personal and professional histories reflect the hardships as well as the advances of African-Americans in the artistic and social developments of the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries.
Joan Brown, Paintings
Title | Joan Brown, Paintings PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Brown |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 14 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Painting, American |
ISBN |
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965
Title | Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline A. Jones |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780520068421 |
"Should be the classic, central, definitive work on the emergence of Bay Area Figurative painting."--Paul Mills, author of The New Figurative Painting of David Park