Helen Brown attended the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts, Elam, from 1930-1937, and was introduced to Cubism by John Weeks. She often went with other pupils of Weeks’s on painting holidays... Read full biography
Helen Brown attended the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts, Elam, from 1930-1937, and was introduced to Cubism by John Weeks. She often went with other pupils of Weeks’s on painting holidays in the King Country where they all specialized in the production of sombre hilly landscapes devoid... Read full biography
Helen Brown attended the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts, Elam, from 1930-1937, and was introduced to Cubism by John Weeks. She often went with other pupils of Weeks’s on painting holidays in the King Country where they all specialized in the production of sombre hilly landscapes devoid of human subjects. Like Vida Steinert, Frances Hunt, Jack Crippen, Blanche Hazelwood, and others in the group, Brown’s work gradually began to display the particular brand of soft Cubism with which... Read full biography
Helen Brown attended the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts, Elam, from 1930-1937, and was introduced to Cubism by John Weeks. She often went with other pupils of Weeks’s on painting holidays in the King Country where they all specialized in the production of sombre hilly landscapes devoid of human subjects. Like Vida Steinert, Frances Hunt, Jack Crippen, Blanche Hazelwood, and others in the group, Brown’s work gradually began to display the particular brand of soft Cubism with which all Weeks students experimented as a means of achieving a more modern conception of form was practiced by painters like Ida Eise, who also taught at Elam. Brown began painting urban scenes characterized by the simplicity of their form and structure.... Read full biography
Helen Brown attended the University of Auckland School of Fine Arts, Elam, from 1930-1937, and was introduced to Cubism by John Weeks. She often went with other pupils of Weeks’s on painting holidays in the King Country where they all specialized in the production of sombre hilly landscapes devoid of human subjects. Like Vida Steinert, Frances Hunt, Jack Crippen, Blanche Hazelwood, and others in the group, Brown’s work gradually began to display the particular brand of soft Cubism with which all Weeks students experimented as a means of achieving a more modern conception of form was practiced by painters like Ida Eise, who also taught at Elam. Brown began painting urban scenes characterized by the simplicity of their form and structure. For a period between 1944 and 1950, such urban scenes formed the basis of Brown’s work exhibited with the Rutland Group, a... Read full biography
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