Winter 2019 Newsletter
Greetings of the Season!
Untitled
1979
Collection of the Frederick J. Brown Trust
FREDERICK J. BROWN: DREAMS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF…
Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling
898 St. Nicholas Avenue @ 155th Street
New York, NY 10032
Continuing through September 27, 2020
Photo by Michael Palma Mir for the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling
Portrait of Jake
Recently spotted outside of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Photo by Bentley Brown
From the FJBT Archives
Frederick J. Brown visiting the White House, 30 January 1982
Window in Paris, early 1970s painting, donated to the White House in 1982.
Photo by Megan Bowman-Brown
John Henry, 1979
John Henry
Traveling exhibit organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
African American Art in the 20th Century
Dubuque Museum of Art in Dubuque, Iowa, (January 19, 2019 – April 21, 2019)
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, in Winter Park, Florida, (September 20, 2019 – December 29, 2019)
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, (February 15, 2020 – May 10, 2020)
“Chicago’s Night Sky” at the Adler Planetarium
Installation of Milky Way by Frederick J. Brown, in the Adler Planetarium’s current exhibition, "Chicago’s Night Sky.” The installation is part of the Adler’s new permanent exhibition.
The work is highlighted to close Steve Johnson’s review in the Chicago Tribune: “The space museum is also an art museum.”
Photo courtesy of the Adler Planetarium
Private Collection Spotlight
Highlighting rarely seen paintings
Sonny Rollins, 2002
Collection of Jo Ann and William D. Sullivan
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