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Joan Brown
Girl in Chair1962

Not on view
Oil painting of a seated nude figure in a chair, rendered with heavy impasto in coral, orange, cobalt blue, and yellow with loose, gestural brushwork

Joan Brown, Girl in Chair, 1962, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Ginter, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Joan Brown
United States, California, San Francisco, active northern California, 1938-1990
Title
Girl in Chair
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1962
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
60 × 49 × 2 in. (152.4 × 124.46 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Ginter
Accession Number
M.64.49
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie, S. Bernstein and I. S. Fort, with essays by Stephanie Barron, Sherri Bernstein, M. Dear, Howard N. Fox and Richard Rodriguez. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Berkeley: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2000.

  • The California pop-up book. New York: Universe Pub. in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2000.
  • Painting and Sculpture in California: the Modern Era. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
Copyright
© The Joan Brown Estate