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Joan Brown: Friends and Family: Selected Paintings 1970-1973

Drawing Gallery

September 4 – October 18, 2009

Selected Works Thumbnails Back
Joan Brown Family Portrait, 1971
Joan Brown The Colonel in the Garden of Allah, 1972
Joan Brown Portrait of Tinye van Arnsdale, 1972
Joan Brown Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat, 1970
Joan Brown Crystal Vase, 1971
Joan Brown Installation view
Joan Brown Installation view
Joan Brown Show Announcement
Joan Brown Show Announcement (continued)

Press Release

George Adams Gallery will present a selection of paintings from the early 1970s by Joan Brown during September and October. Titled "Family and Friends," this small exhibition will include portraits of Tinye van Arnsdale and a fellow student of her swimming coach named Eileen.  The show also features two large-scale, psychologically charged paintings, "Family Portrait" with the artist literally depicted as fish out of water, and the iconic self-portrait, "Self-Portrait with Fish." In addition, two unusual anecdotal still-life paintings from this period will be on view.


Checklist

1.  
Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat, 1970
enamel on masonite
96 x 48 inches
JBRp 14

2.  
The Colonel in the Garden of Allah, 1972
enamel on masonite
90 x 48 inches
JBRp 25

3.  
Family Portrait, 1971
enamel on masonite
97 x 50 inches
JBRp 65

4.  
Portrait of Tinye van Arnsdale, 1972
enamel on panel
48 x 36 inches
JBRp 66

5.  
Crystal Vase, 1972
enamel on panel
29 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches
JBRp 68