Artist: Ford Madox Brown (1821 - 1893)
Nationality: British
Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Ford Madox Brown was born in Calais and first studies with Wappers in Antwerp. In 1840, he moved to Paris and then moved again to London in 1844. In 1848, he encountered Rossetti and the other members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He never officially joined their circle but shared many of the same ideas of the group. In 1861, he helped found William Morris’s decorative arts company and assisted in the design of stained glass and furniture. In 1865, he held a solo exhibition in London. Because of his difficult personality, Brown often had trouble selling his work. However, he was commissioned for a series of painting for the Manchester Town Hall in 1878, which occupied him until his death in 1893.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Ford Madox Brown - Work 1863 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Ford Madox Brown - The Last of England 1855 oil on panel Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Ford Madox Brown - Cordelia's Portion 1867-1875 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Ford Madox Brown - Walton-on-the-Naze 1860 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Ford Madox Brown - Elijah and the Widow's Son 1864 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Ford Madox Brown - Pretty Baa-Lambs 1851-1859 oil on panel Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Ford Madox Brown - The Last of England (1860) 1860 oil on canvas The Fitzwilliam Museum British
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Francis Wheatley - Crossing the Ford 1785 oil on canvas Utah Museum of Fine Arts English
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Kerr Eby - Cattle Ford c. 1930 etching and aquatint Florence Griswold Museum American
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Diego M. Rivera - Edsel B. Ford 1932 oil on canvas, mount The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Karel Dujardin - A Woman and a Boy with Animals at a Ford 1657 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Jan Dirksz Both - The Ford and Halt of the Travelers c. 1650 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art Dutch
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Eadweard Muybridge - Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford 1872 albumen print from w Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Clare Leighton The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) book in slipcase with 17 wood engravings 1945
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Thomas Gainsborough - Portrait of Miss Ann Ford, Later Mrs. Philip Thicknesse 1760 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum British
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 351 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) Wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 234 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page67 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 139 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Illustration on page 261 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton End piece vignette on page 397 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Title page vignette in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Criss-Crossed Conveyors, River Rouge Plant, Ford Motor Company, 1927 Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965)Depicted: Michigan, United
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 7 on page 239 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 2 on page 63 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 10 on page 369 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 9 on page 335 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 6 on page 200 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 8 on page 298 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 1 on page 9 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 5 on page 170 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 3 on page 104 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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Clare Leighton Head piece vignette for chapter 4 on page 130 in the book The Time Of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts (New York: The Viking Press, 1945) wood engraving 1945
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George Cruikshank Sir John Falstaff Discovering that Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Page Have Been Making a Fool of Him, plate 19 opposite page 194 in the book The Life of Sir John Falstaff by Robert B. Brough (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1
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A. Carse The Ford. 18th - 19th century
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George Cruikshank Sir John Falstaff, Disguised at "Mother Pratt", Cudgeled and Driven Out by Mr. Ford, plate 17 opposite page 190 in the book The Life of Sir John Falstaff by Robert B. Brough (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts,
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Gordon Onslow- Ford Water Begin Parles paint on canvas 1961
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Kerr Eby Cattle Ford Etching 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf A Deep Ford 19th - 20th century
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Charles-FranÁois Daubigny Le guÈ (The Ford) ClichÈ verre 1862
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Attributed to Alfred R. Waud, American, 1828-1891 Bank"s Ford from position of Hexamer"s New Jersey
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Jan Kip Up Parke in Sussex, the Seat of the Right Honorable Ford ,Lord Grey, Baron of Werke, etc. 17th - 18th century
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Cows Crossing a Ford, 1836 Jules Dupré (French, 1811-1889)Oil on canvas; 14 1/4 x 24
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Arabs Crossing a Ford, 1873 Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820-1876)Oil on wood; 20 x 24 1/2
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Zither (langeleik) Norway, mid-20th century Pine 16 x 108.7 cm (6 5/16 x 42 13/16
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Rupert Garcia Ford-ABM-Forde color screenprint 1969
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Mysterium der Strasse, 1928 Umbo (Otto Umbehr) (German, 1902-1980)Gelatin silver print; 29 x 23.5 cm
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Compass, 1920 Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)Gelatin silver print; 11.7 x 8.6 cm (4 5/8 x
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Ford of Canada (surgeons) USA,
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Ford of Canada (with crankshafts)
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Runner in the City, ca. 1926 El Lissitzky (Russian, 1890-1941)Gelatin silver print; 13.1 x 12.8
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Gambler, French Riviera, 1937 Lisette Model (American, born Austria, 1901-1983)Depicted: FranceGelatin silver print; 28.7 x
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Ford of Canada (rear window)
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Thomas Allen, Jr., American, 1849-1924 Wallabrook Ford, Dartmoor, England about 1890-91 Oil on canvas 122.55
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Clemens Röseler, ca. 1928 Lux Feininger (American, born Germany, born 1910)Gelatin silver print; 11.3 x
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The Ford, possibly 1636 Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, 1604/5?–1682)Oil on canvas; 29 1/4 x
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The Octopus, 1912 Alvin Langdon Coburn (British, born America, 1882-1966)Depicted: New York City, New York,
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Penny Picture Display, Savannah, 1936 Walker Evans (American, 1903-1975)Depicted: Savannah, Georgia, United States of AmericaGelatin
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Charles François Daubigny, French, 1817-1878 The Ford Le Gué 1862 Cliché-verre, salt print, reverse-printed Sheet:
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Abstraction, Twin Lakes, Connecticut, 1916 Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976)Depicted: Connecticut, United States of AmericaSilver and
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Gustave DorÈ How Gargantua passed the ford, illustration opposite page 76 in the book The Works of Rabelais faithfully translated from the French. With variorum notes, and numerous illustrations by Gustave DorÈ. 2nd English ed. (London: Chatto
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Jacob Jordaens Panel border fragment two brown and blue standing figures, with brown and blue stripes on brown cotton 900 - 1476
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William Theophilus Brown Patricia, number 20 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching printed in Brown 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Seated Woman, number 15 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching printed in brown 1984
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Fitz Hugh Lane, American, 1804-1865 Brig "Antelope" in Boston Harbor 1863 Oil on canvas attached
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Jacob Jordaens Textile fragment brown and dark brown bands on white cotton 900 - 1476
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Anonymous A Saint in a Niche Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper mounted to a heavier sheetpen & brown ink & wash (red chalk rubbed on) 16th century
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Ubaldo Gandolfi Recto:Diana~Verso: Composition with horses and chariot for a ceiling decoration(cropped) r: Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on laid paperv: Pen and brown ink and brown wash 18th century
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Jacob Jordaens Textile fragment brown and green, with brown border and fringe on one side cotton 900 - 1476
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Jacob Jordaens Textile fragment beige and brown geometric pattern with brown border cotton 900 - 1476
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Antonio ClavÈ Textile fragment dark brown with double dark brown band linen 6th century
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Antonio ClavÈ Textile fragment dark brown with double dark brown band linen 6th century
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Antonio ClavÈ Coptic fragment dark brown with double dark brown band linen 6th century
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Anonymous Holy Family Pen and brown ink with black and gray washes and brown-red opaque watercolor on blue laid paper faded to brown early 18th century
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Joseph Badger Anna Porter Brown (Mrs. Nathaniel Brown) oil on canvas circa 1750
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Shunsho [Man with anchor] color woodcut 18th century
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Shunsho [Man with sword] color woodcut 18th century
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Savely Abramswitch Sorine Maxim Gorky oil on canvas 19th - 20th century
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William Theophilus Brown Portrait of John, number 9 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown (the portfolio) wooden box lined with cloth 1984
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William Theophilus Brown In the Park, number 19 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Girl in a Hat, number 11 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Interior, number 16 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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Anonymous Design for a Catafalque Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper circa 1700
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Jacob Jordaens Panel fragment brown human figures and brown border bands on beige cotton and alpaca 900 - 1476
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Anonymous Grotesque Beast Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper 16th century
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Melchior Lorch Young Men in Ancient German Costumes pen and brown ink and brown wash on paper 1570
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Shunsho Nakamura Nakazo I color woodcut 1772 - 1776
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William Theophilus Brown Baker's Beach, number 18 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Beach Scene, number 8 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Figures in a Landscape, number 7 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Man with Bird, Pointing, number 17 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Drypoint 1984
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Katsushika Taito II Full Moon at the Monkey Bridge color woodcut 1830 - 1836
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William Theophilus Brown Elephant, Ibex, and Mouse, number 5 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Mark and Gordon, Drawing, number 13 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Beth Drawing Girl in Hat, number 4 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Beth and Mark, Drawing, number 10 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Woman in Director's Chair, number 3 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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William Theophilus Brown Camel, Okapi, and Bird, number 12 of the portfolio Twenty Etchings by Theophilus Brown Etching 1984
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Giuseppe Scolari Recto: Christ in Limbo~Verso:Figure Studies r: Pen and brown ink and brown wash on laid paper mounted to heavier sheetv: Pen and brown ink 16th - 17th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Gibsone Jessop Gallery: Charles Green and Lyndell Brown: Map of Atlantis
Brown and Green have created a complex process that involves photographing their paintings to achieve high resolution scans that are transferred onto transparent Duraclear film creating what they call "ghostly spirit-photographs". Charles Gr...
Art Boutique: Being Here: New Paintings by Bryce Brown.
Figures are still strong and soulful, even more so now with the addition of the land and seascapes. Brown has focused mainly on The Bay of Plenty but also includes some images from memories of his travels both overseas and through New Zealand. He ...
Harrison's Gallery: New Figurative Works by Bryce Brown
‘I feel compelled to make figurative paintings, to capture subtle movement and gestures and to evoke positive emotion through certain poise. I am always looking for images and movement to find strong line, usually working the image to a point ...
Palette Gallery: Bryce Brown; Urban Essence - Paintings of Life in the City
Brown has adapted his colour palette for this show to reflect upon the natural elements of our cities and abundance of parks and reserves that we have within them - noticing that, “New Zealanders love to be a part of the ‘great oudoors’ as much ...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961 - 2001
In addition, Brown will present her 2003-2004 New York dance season at the New Museum, performing many of her early works from the Judson Dance Theater period and the 1970s. Dance and Art in Dialogue is guest curated by Hendel Teicher. Compl...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: Roger Brown: A Different Dimension
This distinctive aspect of Roger Brown’s career has yet to receive museum or scholarly attention and is critical to the understanding of his contributions as an American artist. Roger Brown, A Different Dimension, the exhibition and catalogue wi...
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: Directions: Cecily Brown
Among the works that will be on view are the never-before-exhibited "Dogday Afternoon," 1999, in which the artist's body markings are part of the composition; "Bacchanal," 2001, exemplifying Brown's recent investigations into landscape; and an ...
Axiom Gallery: Peter Cramond, Bryce Brown and Graham Grow Bare Their Figures
After spending time working on complex paintings that focused on surface rather than image, Crow is excited about his return to his artistic roots. His latest mixed media drawings show a distinct return to basics with the human form being the pr...
Palette Gallery: Bryce Brown: A Newborn Captures the Heart
Capturing this relationship on canvas seemed a natural step as the majority of his work to date has featured figures. The Bay of Plenty artist has chosen a classical Greek-Italian style of line and colour for many of the paintings featured i...
www.studio-visit.com: David Henry Brown, Jr.
studio-visit.coms aim is to offer an in-depth look at an individual artist or troupe. Each month they will offer a personal look into the artist s studio along with an interview, slides, and a resume. Since todays cultural borders are consta...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...
Mills Reef Winery: Bryce Brown: Vitality
Born in Auckland in 1971, Bryce grew up in the lush Northland Surrounds, of Whangarei. He began to take art seriously in the mid 90s With the outstanding beauty of the Northland area providing him with a major source of inspiration. ...
Studio Museum in Harlem: Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues, and Other Icons
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Brown emerged as a driving force in the resurgence of expressive figuration in theinternational art world. He has combined his interest in jazz and blues music, Native American and African culture, primitive folk ...
Full Deck Art Quilts: COLLECTORS PURCHASE ENTIRE EXHIBIT
According to Collections Director Karen Brown, the collection combines two rich cultural traditions, quilting and card playing. This combination has universal appeal, and many people who dont typically visit museums are going to see this exhibi...
Artists Room Dunedin: Amici - a Celebration of Friendship: Bryce Brown
His love of New Zealand and his passion for travel have played a large part in the development of his distinctive style. Bryce’s work has a Euro/Polynesian feel often likened to the Polynesian figures of Gauguin with a twist of renaissance. B...
Whitney Museum of American Art: Whitney Biennial 2004 Opens Tomorrow
Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney's Alice Pratt Brown Director, said, "The Biennial is a great tradition that goes back to the Museum's earliest roots. This gathering of new and established artists plunges us into the present moment in American contem...
Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: Windshield: Richard Neutra's House for the John Nicholas Brown Family
Completed in 1938, the house was severely damaged by a hurricane a few months later, rebuilt, and subsequently destroyed by fire in 1973. It has therefore remained largely overlooked. However, two years of almost daily correspondence between the ...
studio-visit.com: march issue: progress report
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Detroit Institute of Art: A Cultural Heritage: Selected Works of African American Art from the DIA's Collection
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24 HR Art - Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art: Five Darwin Painters: Kathy Arbon, Bryan Bulley, Rob Brown, Jacqueline Stockdale, Karen Mills
Each of these artists has a strong individual style and their works stand out from one another because of  the scale or the vibrancy of colour and form. There is a challenge involved in showing these divergent artists together but the recent works...
King County Public Art Program: Call for Entries: Marion Oliver McCaw Hall Glass Commission
One of the premier public sites in the new design of the Marion Oliver McCaw Hall is the entrance lobby foyer that curves and sweeps to the west. As the prominent gathering place for patrons and visitors to the Hall, the lobby provides key entranc...
momentum: Artadia: American Season 2004
The variety of the artistic practices demonstrated in Artadia at momentum illustrates Artadia‚s broad range of funding. Nick Brown is interested in the relation of time, space, memory and perception; Brown will show silhouettes presenting the v...
About the Arts: Call for Artists: Beyond the Canvas Television Program
About the Arts has issued an open call for artists to submit their work for possible inclusion in our 2003 series "Beyond the Canvas". This series of thirteen, half hour mini-documentaries will focus not only on the artists and their work but exam...
Museum of Fine Art Houston: Museum Trustees and Patrons: Portraits by Robert Joy
Among the subjects are Gladys Madigan Andrews, Isaac and Tony Arnold, George and Herman Brown, George Heyer, Ima Hogg, and Louisa Stude Sarofim....
João Ferreira Fine Art: Artery
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ArtHaus: Revelations: New Works in Various Media
Artists also included in this exhibition are: Andrea Arroyo, Astrid, Suzanne Benton, Brian Blood, Deborah Brown, Marc Lambrechts, Joanne Landis, Samuel F. Lewis and Carol Schiavo. IMAGE:
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31Grand: Pop Life
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Frick Collection: The Drawings of François Boucher
By his own admission, Boucher is said to have made as many as ten thousand drawings over the course of a career that spanned nearly five decades. Not only did he make preparatory compositional and figure studies for his paintings, but he also used...
Laguna Art Museum: Three Solo Exhibitions of Photography
On the main level of the Museum, Laurie Brown: Recent Terrains, organized by Laguna Art Museum curator of exhibitions Tyler Stallings, presents a sequence of black and white photographs that consider how the planet’s surface has been transf...
Center on Contemporary Art: Emotional Rescue: The ContemporaryArtProject Collection
ContemporaryArtProject LLC, founded in August 1999 by curator Linda Farris, collects cutting edge international art toeventually be gifted to museums. In the interim, individual works rotate between members' homes and are available for museum loan...

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