One of California's most well-known and celebrated figurative expressionist painters, Joan Brown is recognized among the important artists who emerged from the creative milieu of the San Francisco... Read full biography
One of California's most well-known and celebrated figurative expressionist painters, Joan Brown is recognized among the important artists who emerged from the creative milieu of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s. Perhaps because of her premature death, recognition of her work as a... Read full biography
One of California's most well-known and celebrated figurative expressionist painters, Joan Brown is recognized among the important artists who emerged from the creative milieu of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s. Perhaps because of her premature death, recognition of her work as a significant abstract painter of the late 20th century has taken time. San Francisco born Joan Brown became an art student almost by accident. She graduated from high school at age seventeen with no real... Read full biography
One of California's most well-known and celebrated figurative expressionist painters, Joan Brown is recognized among the important artists who emerged from the creative milieu of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s. Perhaps because of her premature death, recognition of her work as a significant abstract painter of the late 20th century has taken time. San Francisco born Joan Brown became an art student almost by accident. She graduated from high school at age seventeen with no real training in art in 1955. Her parents enrolled her at Lone Mountain College, then a women's Catholic school in San Francisco. Shortly before her first day of classes there, Joan having seen an ad in the newspaper and on an impulse visited the campus of... Read full biography
One of California's most well-known and celebrated figurative expressionist painters, Joan Brown is recognized among the important artists who emerged from the creative milieu of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s. Perhaps because of her premature death, recognition of her work as a significant abstract painter of the late 20th century has taken time. San Francisco born Joan Brown became an art student almost by accident. She graduated from high school at age seventeen with no real training in art in 1955. Her parents enrolled her at Lone Mountain College, then a women's Catholic school in San Francisco. Shortly before her first day of classes there, Joan having seen an ad in the newspaper and on an impulse visited the campus of the California School of Fine Arts, (now called the San Francisco Art Institute), located on Russian Hill near her home. She... Read full biography
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About Joan Brown: Books
Books & Publications (61)
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American Abstract and Figurative Expressionism Style is Timely Art is Timeless
2009
Herskovic, Marika
252 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism
2004
Landauer, Susan
240 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Lighter Side of Bay Area Figurative
2000
Landauer, Susan
70 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media
1998
Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall
560 pages (color)
Painting as a Visual Diary: The Art of Joan Brown
1998
Tsujimoto, Karen
0 pages
Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection
1997
Burgard, Timothy Anglin
47 pages (color)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Landauer, Susan
271 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area
1995
Nash, Steven A
216 pages (color)
Working Together: Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, 1958-1964
1995
Strong, Charles
0 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
On Painting: The Work of Elmer Bischoff and Joan Brown
1992
Bischoff, Elmer
48 pages (color)
Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Jones, Caroline
231 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
California Painters/New Work
1989
Hopkins, Henry
143 pages (color)
Yesterday and Tomorow California Women Artists
1989
Moore, Sylvia (editor)
378 pages
Contemporary Women Artists
1988
Beckett, Wendy
128 pages (color)
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream
1988
Rosen, Randy, et al
300 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
Joan Brown: The Golden Years San Diego State University Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Levy, Mark/Tina Yapelli
40 pages (color)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
American Art Now
1985
Lucie-Smith, Edward
160 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
The 38th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting Second Western States Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1983
List, Clair
93 pages (color)
California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Monterey Peninsula Museum
63 pages
Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler
195 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
The Art Presence
1982
Schwartz, Sanford
246 pages
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Fifty West Coast Artists: A Critical Selection of Painters and Sculptors Working in California
1981
Hopkins, Henry; Mimi Jacobs (illustration)
128 pages (color)
Inside Out Self beyond Likeness (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Newport Harbor Art Museum
103 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
American Figure Painting 1950-198 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Styron, Thomas W
115 pages (color)
American Painting of the 1970s (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Cathcart, Linda L
111 pages (color)
Seven on the Figure: September 20-December 16, 1979 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts---Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Goodyear, Frank Henry
64 pages (color)
Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings
1979
West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr.
202 pages (color)
The Sense of the Self From Self Portrait to Autobiography (Exhibition catalog)
1978
Independent Curators Inc
36 pages
Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art
1977
Barr, Alfred H
655 pages
Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works
1977
Whitney Museum
56 pages
1977 Biennial Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Whitney Museum
104 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
University of Illinois
136 pages
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
A Period of Exploration San Francisco 1945-1950
1973
McChesney, Mary Fuller
91 pages (color)
An American Collection The Neuberger Collection
1968
Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott
463 pages (color)
Painters Behind Painters An Exhibition of Central California Artists (Exhibition catalog)