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Joan Brown

1938-1990

Seated female nude, 1975

Acrylic, tempera, wax crayon, and graphite on paper
Signed and dated in pencil lower left: Joan Brown 1975
Image/Sheet: 36" H x 24" W

  • Provenance:
    Private collection, San Francisco, CA, a friend of the artist
    Private collection, acquired by the present owner from the above

    Other notes:
    Joan Brown is celebrated as one of the most renowned figurative expressionist American painters, emerging prominently from the Bay Area scene of the late 1950s.

    Brown compositions in mixed media were created in a rapid and simplified cartoon-like style. The artist's artistic influences were varied broadly including German Expressionism, French Impressionism, and European Old Masters. Brown's skillful blending of influences from artistic giants like Matisse, Valasquez, and Goya - as well as contemporaries including David Park - resonates with depth, drawing viewers into a world of interpretation and speculation. Throughout her art, echoes of Joan Brown's childhood fantasies of crafting costumes for paper dolls and sketching starlets in fantastical settings reverberated, serving as a means of escape and expression. Other subjects drew creativity from experiences as an adult in her daily life in California, extensive and regular travel, and her personal passions including pets, dancing, swimming, spirituality and ancient cultures.

    Brown's portrayal of traditional feminine gender representation, intertwined with a fierce sense of independence, weave a narrative that transcended conventional boundaries. Even her choice of medium, salvaged paper from San Francisco's Mission District, underscored her resourcefulness and commitment to artistic expression.
  • Condition: Overall good condition. A rice-sized, very unobtrusive area of pigment loss in the yellow pigment, bordering in-between the red and yellow pigment, near the center of the upper edge. Artist's pinholes at the upper sheet corners. The sheet is loose, not matted.

    Framed under glass: 36.5" H x 24.5" W x 1.25" D


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