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Joan Brown

Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was active/lived in California, British Columbia / India.  Joan Brown is known for Expressionist painting-impasto, abstraction.

One of California's most well-known and celebrated figurative expressionist painters, Joan Brown is recognized among the important artists who emerged from the creative milieu of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1950s.  Perhaps because of her premature death, recognition of her work as a significant abstract painter of the late 20th century has taken time.

San Francisco born Joan Brown became an art student almost by accident. She graduated from high school at age seventeen with no real training in art in 1955. Her parents enrolled her at Lone Mountain College, then a women's Catholic school in San Francisco. Shortly before her first day of classes there, Joan having seen an ad in the newspaper and on an impulse visited the campus of the California School of Fine Arts, (now called the San Francisco Art Institute), located on Russian Hill near her home. She began classes there the following the morning, and went on to receive her BFA from CSFA in 1959, a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 30011 characters.]  Artist bio

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