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Rising Above it All, 1978
For other people named Roger Brown, see Roger Brown (disambiguation).
Roger Brown
Born
James Roger Brown

December 10, 1941
Hamilton, Alabama
DiedNovember 22, 1997
Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality United States
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known forPainting
MovementChicago Imagists

Roger Brown (December 10, 1941 – November 22, 1997, born in Hamilton, Alabama) was an American artist who was a member of the Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. His paintings are owned by many of the most important art museums in the US.

He was born in Hamilton and raised in Opelika.[1] He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1962 through 1963 as an undergraduate and 1964 through 1970 as a graduate.

Brown's first art show was with an artist group named "False Image".[1] He credits one of his teachers at the Art Institute, Ray Yoshida, for his help. Yoshida helped him to "put myself into my art", as Brown said. Brown's art has a comic-book style narrative, which is sometimes literally written underneath the image.[2]

Brown donated his three homes and collections to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His Chicago home exists as the Roger Brown Study Collection[1] , a house museum, archive and special collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[3] His home in New Buffalo, Michigan, designed by his partner, the late modernist architect George Veronda, acts as a faculty and staff retreat and is not open to the public.[3] (p.88) His home in La Conchita, California, designed by the Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, was sold by the school and its collection of art placed in storage.[3] (p.89) The Spartan Trailer that was on his property in La Conchita is currently[when?] on semi-permanent loan to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles.

The houses contain Brown's art collections, including artworks by many notable Chicago Imagists, naive or primitive art, Outsider art, found objects from flea markets, and Brown's original furniture and sketchbooks. Much of this art is arranged in the Salon style, where paintings, sculpture, and artifacts cover every conceivable surface area. This is the way that Brown lived with his art collection. The Study Collection, located in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood[1] , is open to school groups, scholars, and the public by appointment.

Public Collections

  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  • Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Solo Exhibitions[3] [4]

2012

  • Roger Brown: This Boy’s Own Story, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, August 24 – November 10, 2012
  • Dual exhibition, Roger Brown: Major Paintings, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL and Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL, September 7 - October 27, 2012
  • Roger Brown: Urban Traumas and Natural Disasters, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, September 17 – November 13, 2012

2010

  • Roger Brown: Calif. U.S.A., curated by Nicholas Lowe, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, June 20 – October 3, 2010

2009

  • Roger Brown: Early Work, Major Paintings and Constructions, 1968-1980, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, March 27 – May 16
  • Roger Brown, Art Works: Chicago A Progressive Corporate Exhibition of Chicago Artists, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL

2008

  • Roger Brown: The American Landscape, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, May 1 – June 13

2007-2009

  • Roger Brown: Southern Exposure, curated by Sidney Lawrence, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University, AL, October 6, 2007 – January 5, 2008. Traveled to: The Katzen Arts Center, College of Arts and Sciences, American University, Washington, DC, February 5 - March 22, 2008; The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, University of New Orleans, LA, April 19 – July 31, 2008

2006

  • Roger Brown: The Last Paintings, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, April 21 – June 17

2005

  • Roger Brown: From the Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC, February 1 – April 15
  • Jesse Howard and Roger Brown: Now Read On, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, August 6 – September 17
  • Jesse Howard and Roger Brown: Now Read On, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illonois, October 14 – November 18

2004-2005

  • Roger Brown Paintings, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY, December 3, 2004 – January 15

2004

  • Roger Brown: A Different Dimension, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, April 10 – June 6. Traveled to: Chicago Cultural Center, IL, July 17 – September 26
  • Roger Brown: Selections from the Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, IN, October 15 – December 26

2003

  • Roger Brown, Chicago Imagist: Selected Works from the Roger Brown Study Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, IN, April – June 1

2001

  • Roger Brown: Great Lakes Selections from the Collection of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
  • Recollections and Observations: The Prints of Roger Brown, curated by Richard A. Born, Joel and Carole Bernstein Gallery, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL, July 14 – September 2

1999

  • Roger Brown Paintings from the SAIC Collection, The University Club of Chicago, IL

=Publications[3] [4]

2012

  • Roger Brown: This Boy’s Own Story (exh. cat.), Chicago, IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2010

  • Brown, Roger, Nicholas Lowe, Lisa Stone, Christine Atha, and Dana Boutin. Roger Brown: Calif. U.S.A. (exh. cat.), Chicago, IL: School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2008

  • Storr, Robert. “The American Landscape,” Roger Brown: The American Landscape (exh. cat.), New York, NY: DC Moore Gallery.

2007

  • Lawrence, Sidney, Lisa Stone, and Lee Gray. Roger Brown: Southern Exposure (exh. cat.), Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press.

2005

  • Howard, Jesse, Roger Brown, Lisa Stone, and Raechell Smith. Jesse Howard and Roger Brown: Now Read On (exh. cat.), Kansas City, MO: UMKC Center for Creative Studies.

2004

  • Brown, Roger, Dennis Adrian, and Lisa Stone. Roger Brown: A Different Dimension (exh. cat.), Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.

1998

  • Adrian, Dennis. A Selection of Works on Paper and Other Materials from the Roger Brown Study Collection of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Press.
  • Nesbit, Perry. Roger Brown and Friends in the Nineties (exh. cat.), Davidson, NC: Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College.

1990

  • Gedo, Mary Mathews. “An Autobiography in the Shape of Alabama: The Art of Roger Brown.” In Postmodern Perspectives: Issues in Contemporary Art, ed. Howard Risatti, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, pp. 276-89.

1987

  • Lawrence, Sidney and John Yau. Roger Brown (exh. cat.), New York: George Braziller in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Scultpure Garden, Smithsonian Institution.

1985

  • Adrian, Dennis. “Roger Brown and the Chicago Context: An Appreciation,” reprinted in Sight Out of Mind: Essays and Criticism on Art, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.

1980

  • Cowart, Jack. Currents 6: Roger Brown (exh. brochure), St. Louis: St. Louis Art Museum. Reprinted in Roger Brown. Matrix/Berkeley 35 (exh. brochure), Berkeley, CA: University Art Museum.
  • Kahan, Mitchell Douglas with contributions by Dennis Adrian and Russell Bowman. Roger Brown (exh. cat.), Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts.
  • Keefe, Katherine Lee. “A Conversation,” Some Recent Art from Chicago (exh. cat.), Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Ackland Art Museum.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Lawrence, Sidney; foreword by Lee Gray ; afterword by Lisa Stone (2007). Roger Brown : Southern Exposure. [Auburn, Ala.]: Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University. ISBN 0-8173-5469-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Fineberg, J. "Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being". page 276, Prentice Hall, 2000.
  3. ^ a b c d e Jesse Howard & Roger Brown : Now Read On. Kansas City, Mo.: UMKC Center for Creative Studies. 2005. ISBN 0-914489-23-2.
  4. ^ a b Storr, Robert (2008). Roger Brown: The American Landscape. New York: DC Moore Gallery.

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