Peter Brown

(American, born 1948)

dimmit meat company, 1992 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Dimmit Meat Company, 1992

Price on Request

rolling plains, bernhard ranch, west of pawhuska, oklahoma, 1992 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Rolling Plains, Bernhard Ranch, west of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 1992

Price on Request

wray, colorado, 2005 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Wray, Colorado, 2005, 2005

1,000–3,000 USD

texline, tx, 1985 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Texline, TX, 1985, 1985

1,000–3,000 USD

bronte, tx, 2003 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Bronte, TX, 2003, 2003

1,000–3,000 USD

patricia, tx, 2002 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Patricia, TX, 2002, 2002

1,000–3,000 USD

plainview, tx, 1999 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Plainview, TX, 1999, 1999

1,000–3,000 USD

bennett, colorado 2005 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Bennett, Colorado 2005, 2005

1,000–3,000 USD

claude, tx, 1995 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Claude, TX, 1995, 1995

1,000–3,000 USD

matheson, colorado, 2006 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Matheson, Colorado, 2006, 2006

1,000–3,000 USD

yuma, colorado, 2003 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Yuma, Colorado, 2003, 2003

1,000–3,000 USD

whiteface, tx, 2002 by peter brown

Peter Brown

Whiteface, TX, 2002, 2002

1,000–3,000 USD

Biography

Timeline

1971
B.A., English, Stanford University.
1977
M.F.A., Photography, Stanford University
Peter Brown has photographed the open landscape and small towns of the Great Plains for the past twenty-five years. He is the author of Seasons of Light, On the Plains West of Last Chance, a collaboration with the novelist Kent Haruf, which won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. His work has been collected by The Menil Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, MoMA, New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. He’s the recipient of an Individual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award, the Imogen Cunningham Award, and grants from the Graham Foundation and the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. His work has appeared in Harpers, Life, PDN, The New Yorker, Aperture, American Photographer, Texas Monthly and other magazines. He has degrees in English and Art from Stanford University and teaches at the Glasscock School at Rice University where he recently won their inaugural teaching prize.

Exhibitions

2008
West of Last Chance, PDNB Gallery, Dallas.
West of Last Chance, Harris Gallery, Houston.
West of Last Chance, Stephen Clark Gallery, Austin.
West of Last Chance, Carson Gallery, Denver.
West of Last Chance, Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto
West of Last Chance, Highland Gallery, Marfa.
2006
High Plains, Harris Gallery, Houston.
Llano Estacado, Island in the Sky, Houston Center for Photography, Houston.
Texas Expanses, Travis Tower, Houston, Texas.
Xtreme Houses, Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich, & Halle 14, Leipzig , Germany.