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Joan Brown

(American, 1938–1990)

Joan Brown

Woman and Dog in Room with Chinese Rug, 1975

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Biography

Timeline

1938: Born in San Francisco, CA
1959: B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1960: M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1962: James D. Phelan Award
1965: Louis Comfort Tiffany award
1973: Adeline Kent Award
1976: National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1977: Guggenheim Fellowship
1980: National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1986: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1990: Died in Prasanthinilayam, India

Exhibitions

2012 - 2013: “Renaissance on Fillmore, 1955-65,” di Rosa, Napa, CA
: “The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World,” Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
2012: “Viva la Raspberries,” Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
: “Group Shoe,” Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
: Choose Paint! Choose Abstraction!, Musuem of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Figure Forward: Works by Bay Area Figurative Artist, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
2011 - 2012: This Kind of Bird Flies Backward: Paintings by Joan Brown, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: "Joan Brown: Selected Drawings, 1957-1987," George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction 1946-1953, Nyehaus, New York, NY
: Important Artworks, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: About the Face: Portraits from the Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
: Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2010 - 2011: Narcissus in the Studio: Artist Portraits and Self-Portraits, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010: Summer Group Show: New and Classic, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2009: Spaced Out/On Time, CANADA Gallery, New York, NY
: Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - 2009: Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies and Minimal Art, Art and Counterculture in San Francisco 19-55-68, The Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
: Joan Brown: Friends and Family, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2008: Face Forward: American Portraits from Sargent to the Present, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2007: Inside/Outside, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: True Love Always, Curated by Rebecca Campbell, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006: Joan Brown: The Affair, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: 2006 Collector's Show & Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
: The Collection in Context: Bay Area Figurative Art, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
: Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
2005: Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: George Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003 - 2004: The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; traveling to the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2003: Multiple Artists, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: A Few of Her Favorite Things: Joan Brown Works on Paper, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2002: Me, Myself & I, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Women Artists: Their Work and Influence, 1950's-70's, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
: Paintings and Drawings from the '70's, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2000: The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: 2000 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1999 - 2001: Large Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Circulated by Smith-Kramer Fine Art Services, Kansas City, MO; traveled to the Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA; Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA
: Art About Art, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, San Jose, CA
1999: Drawn Across the Century: Highlights from the Dillard Collection of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
: American Abstraction/American Realism: The Great Debate, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1998: Transformations: The Art of Joan Brown, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Oakland Museum of California (solo)
1997: Mary Julia Series and Other Early Works, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1994: Paintings and Drawings from the '70's, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
: Around The House, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
1993: Paintings and Drawings from the 1970’s, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
: Why Painting, Part I, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
: people, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
: On Painting: The Work of Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkley, CA (solo)
1992: Joan Brown, Drawings and Paintings, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
: Major Works From the Early 1970's, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1991: Memorial Exhibition, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York (solo)
: Northern California Figuration, Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1990: Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Bay Area Figurative Painting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Signs of the Self: Changing Perceptions, Woodstock Artists Association, New York, NY
: Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-1985, traveling museum exhibition organized by Randy Rosin Arts Associates
: Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self-Portraiture, Islip Art Museum, New York, NY
1989: Here's Looking at Us: A Selection of Figurative Works from the di Rosa Foundation, Rasmussen Art Gallery, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA
: Made In the Sixties: Paintings and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art (Equitable), New York, NY
: 6 Artists/6 Idioms, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
: Diversity and Presence, Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
: Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Pence Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988: Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Large Paintings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY
: The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Crocker Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
: Just Like A Woman, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1987: Self-Portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific National Bank's Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
: Art Is, Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
: Self-Portraits: the Message, the Material, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, NY
: The Figure In Context, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986: 38th Annual Purchase Exhibition, Hassam and Speicher Fund, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: The Golden Age, Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA (solo)
: Joan Brown, Painting and Sculpture, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Three Reflections on the World : An Exhibition of Three Milton Avery Distinguished Visiting Professors in the Arts, Edith C. Blum Art institute, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
: Art In the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
: Chiaroscuro, Art City, New York, NY
: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, CA (solo)
1985: Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, CA (solo)
: Five Contemporary Painters, CSCS Art Gallery, New York, NY
: Outline, Cutout, Silhouette, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
: Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
: Clark Art Institute, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
: American Federation of the Arts, New York, NY
: Aldrich Collection, New York, NY
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
: Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
: Museum of Modern Art, New York City
: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
: Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
: Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Lewis Collection, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
: University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
: University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
: Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, CA
: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Joan Brown

(American, 1938–1990)

Joan Brown

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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