This exhibition features seven medium-scale works on canvas and paper painted between 2001-2010, two years before the artist’s death. The colorful works are all portraits ranging from anonymous subjects to the revered Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong. Each work reveals the artist’s unique interpretations of the human face, evoking the work of artists such as Pablo Picasso and Max Beckmann.
Galleries
Frederick J. Brown
Stormy Monday (Junior Wells II)
2001
Mixed media on canvas
36 x 31 3/4 inches
Frederick J. Brown
Untitled (Figure with Polka Dot Shirt)
2010
Mixed media on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Frederick J. Brown
Billie
2007
Mixed media on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Frederick J. Brown
Untitled (Portrait of de Kooning)
2007
Mixed media on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Frederick J. Brown
Untitled
n/d
Acrylic on paper
43 x 37 inches
Frederick J. Brown
Untitled (Vertical profile of bearded man with blue face)
2004
Acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches
Frederick J. Brown
Untitled (Vertical abstract portrait, possibly clown)
2004
Acrylic on paper
30 x 22 1/4 inches