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Gary Hugh Brown
Gary Brown
Born1941
Education DePauw University ( BA)
University of Wisconsin–Madison ( MFA)
Known forPainting, drawing, printmaking, journaling
Awards The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Travel Grant

Gary Hugh Brown (born 1941) [1] is an American artist, painter, draftsman, and professor emeritus of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Brown has a drawing in the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has exhibited his work in Japan, Ireland, Brazil, and the United States. [2]

Early life and education

Brown was born to Earl Hugh and Dorothy Aileen Brown in 1941, in Evansville, Indiana. [3] While a student, Brown designed and painted sets for the Mesker Amphitheatre in Evansville. [4]

In 1966, Brown received a Master of Fine Arts from University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. [5]

As of 2009, Brown is a professor emeritus of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [6]

Career

Brown worked as an artist in Wisconsin, exhibiting his art at several galleries in the area. In that same year he accepted a position as assistant professor at UCSB. [7] In September 1966, Brown had a one-person exhibition at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville, Indiana, where he was reviewed by The Courier-Journal. [7] [8] In February 1971, Brown's watercolors were displayed at the Plaza Gallery of Fine Arts in Oxnard, California. His work was influenced by his travels. [9] Another exhibition in 1972, selected by Richard Ames, a critic for the Santa Barbara News-Press, was at the Gallery de Silva in Montecito Village. It included Landscape Reflection, a self-portrait of Brown done in 1971. [10] [11] Brown did the drawings of the Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, by poet and author Morton Marcus in November 1972. [12] [13] [14] He did the centerfold sketchbook for Free Beaches by Noel Young/Capra Press in 1974. [15]

A small version of Fortune, the size of a playing card mounted on a panel, 2009 12 x 16", is in AD&A Museum's permanent collection at UCSB. [1] Included in Anthology were Brown's drawings of the Devereaux Series sketchbooks and prints at the Art/Life Gallery. [16]

In 1984 through 2000, Brown donated 95 art objects to the AD&A Museum's permanent collection located on the campus of the UCSB. [17] The book Dreamworks, an interdisciplinary quarterly, published in 1986, has a chapter entitled, Images From A Portfolio by Gary Brown that includes two drawings, Landscape Reflection, (1971), and Nightmare, (1981). [18] In November 1991, Brown had a solo exhibition at the Allan Hancock College Art Gallery in Santa Maria, California. [2]

In the Tea Fire of November 2008, Brown lost his home, including his art collection. Brown donated a small print in 2008 to AD&A a few weeks prior to the blaze. [17] In April 2009, an exhibit, Signs of His Times, honored Brown's commitment to AD&A and UCSB by highlighting selections from the gifts he had made to the museum since 1984. The exhibition included selections of Brown's own works, which demonstrated his background in figurative drawing and presented his most recent work of art. [17]

Brown did illustrations for Catfish Goodbye (Anubis Press) poems by Tim Reynolds, 1966. [19] His work was displayed at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in 1966 [7] and in one man shows Folded Drawings, at the Fleischer-Anhalt gallery, Los Angeles in 1967 [20] and Casted Watercolors, at Comsky Gallery in 1975. [21]

DePauw University has the Gary Hugh Brown papers, a collection of news clippings and biography. [22]

References

  1. ^ a b "Brown, Gary H., Fortune". UCSB ADA Museum Omeka. Goleta, California. Retrieved December 7, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Brown display at Hancock". Times-Press-Recorder. Arroyo Grande, California. November 13, 1991. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  3. ^ McCray, Marilyn (1979). Electroworks. Michigan: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
  4. ^ "University of Colorado Student Holding One-Man Art Exhibit". Evansville Courier and Press. Evansville, Indiana. February 7, 1962. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  5. ^ Carey, Ann (August 30, 1966). "Gary Brown masters". Evansville Press. p. 11.
  6. ^ "University Art Museum Presents 'Signs of His Times,' a Gary H. Brown Collection". The Current. April 9, 2009.
  7. ^ a b c "Young Artist's Giant Drawings A Strike for 'Independence'?". Louisville, Kentucky: The Courier-Journal. September 11, 1966. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  8. ^ "Spectrum Summer 1967: Vol 9 Iss 2". University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, California. 1967. p. 21. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  9. ^ "Artweek 1971-01-16: Vol 2 Iss 3". Spaulding Publishing Inc. January 16, 1971. p. 8. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  10. ^ "Exhibits". The Tribune. San Luis Obispo, California. October 20, 1979. Retrieved November 13, 2022.
  11. ^ "Artweek 1972-02-26: Vol 3 Iss 9". Spaulding Publishing Inc. February 26, 1972. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  12. ^ "A city boy in the land or redwoods". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Santa Cruz, California. May 1, 1992. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  13. ^ Marcus, Morton (1972). The Santa Cruz Mountain Poems. Capra Press. ISBN  978-0-912264-46-2. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  14. ^ "Mountain Man Writes Poetry". Santa Cruz Sentinel. Santa Cruz, California. November 12, 1972. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  15. ^ Elder, Leon (1974). Free beaches: A Phenomenon of the California Coast. Santa Barbara, California: Capra Press. ISBN  9780912264752. Retrieved November 15, 2022.
  16. ^ "Calendar Art". The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. November 7, 1982. Retrieved November 14, 2022.
  17. ^ a b c Deirdre O’Shea (April 8, 2009). "University Art Museum Presents 'Signs of His Times,' a Gary H. Brown Collection". The Current. Santa Barbara, California. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  18. ^ "Dreamworks, An Interdisciplinary Quarterly". Human Sciences Press, Inc. 5 (1): 18. 1986. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  19. ^ Reynolds, Tim; Brown, Gary Hugh (1966). Catfish Goodbye. Anubis Press. Retrieved November 10, 2022.
  20. ^ "Art And Artist 'Delicate Chords'". Los Angeles Evening Citizen News. Hollywood, California. January 19, 1968. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
  21. ^ "University Bulletin A Weekly Bulletin for the Staff of the University of California". University of California. 23. California: 128. 1974.
  22. ^ "Gary Hugh Brown papers". DePauw University. Greencastle, Indiana. Retrieved November 12, 2022.
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