Spring 2020 Newsletter
Happy Spring!
Enjoy virtual ways to experience the art of Frederick J. Brown
Untitled
2004
Collection of the Frederick J. Brown Trust
Healing Spirits, 1992, 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
Learn more about the exhibition of Frederick’s work at the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling. Felipe Luciano provided narration or poetry for each of the pieces in the exhibition and made a musical selection to pair with it, all of which is available online.
Inspired by this exhibition, Cecilia Walker posted this Alfafa Studio Blog about Frederick’s work. The studio is a Harlem-based branding and graphic design firm.
Docent Eye Opener
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City is featuring Docent Eye Openers to introduce their collection through social media from the perspective of art gallery guides. Docent Mark Dirkes selected this portrait of Johnnie Hodges for his contribution.
Johnnie Hodges, 2005
From the FJBT Archives
Work-in-progress on Untitled, portrait of a trumpet player, probably late 1980s, unidentified photographer.
If you have any recollections about this painting, please contact us and share them. We’d love to hear from you.
Adler Planetarium
Study #427 Milky Way, 20 October 1977
Collection of the Adler Planetarium, Chicago
Supplement to the Adler Planetarium’s current exhibition, "Chicago’s Night Sky,” the planetarium’s new permanent exhibition.
Included in Curator Pedro Raposo’s blog, The Galactic Art of Frederick J. Brown as well as his Soundcloud podcast, Episode 3: Frederick J. Brown, in Stories from the YOUniverse.
Photo by Sean Gilchrist
Private Collection Spotlight
Highlighting rarely seen paintings
I Dream of Crazy Horse, 1992
Collection of Sherry B. Bronfman
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