[PDF] Joan Brown Paintings eBook

Author : Karen Tsujimoto
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520214699

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Examines the California artist's life and work, offering reproductions of many of her pieces

Author : Janet Bishop
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2022-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520391969

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"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"--

Author : Nancy Churnin
Publisher : Creston Books
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2021-12-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1954354150

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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.

Author : William Benton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9781940396217

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Literary Nonfiction. Art. William Benton ran a Santa Fe art gallery in the 1970s where he showed the work of Bay Area figurative painter Joan Brown. In THE MARY JULIA PAINTINGS OF JOAN BROWN, poet and novelist Benton deftly weaves a tribute to Brown (seventeen of her paintings are reproduced) and a meditation on love and his late ex-wife. "Written with clarity and a deceptive, beguiling simplicity, Benton's text wanders into very personal terrain, something art writing usually avoids but perhaps shouldn't." Lilly Wei, art critic and curator"

Author : Caroline A. Jones
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520068421

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"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