Recto: Wm Theo Brown '64
Verso: Wm. Theo Brown 1964
Material/Technique
Painted
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Frame
Height
32-1/4 in
Width
38-3/4 in
Dimension Description
Object
Height
31 in
Width
37-1/2 in
Exhibitions
Exhibition
The Incorrect Museum: Redux
Notes
May 13, 2022 - February 26, 2023, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
Exhibition
Building A Different Model: Selections from the di Rosa Collection
Notes
March 9 - December 29, 2019, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa
Exhibition
The Collection in Context: Bay Area Figurative Art
Notes
July 8 – September 26, 2006, di Rosa Preserve
Research Notes
Research Type
Curator
Date
2022
Notes
Brown was a key member of the Bay Area Figurative Movement–a group of painters including Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Weeks –who embraced figurative representation with depictions of both natural and human forms. Following the well-received 1957 exhibition Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting at the Oakland Museum of Art, the figurative movement became perhaps the best-known school to emerge from the Bay Area in the twentieth century.
Although they rejected pure abstraction, Brown and his colleagues employed painterly strategies associated with the San Francisco school of abstract expressionism (a palate of muted earth tones, broad planes of color and a sludgy use of impasto which lent a textured, sculptural quality to their surfaces).
