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William Theophilus Brown

William Theophilus Brown (1919 - 2012) was active/lived in California, New York, Illinois / France.  William Brown is known for Modernist-real figure, genre.

William Theophilus Brown (1919-2012)

SAN FRANCISCO (Thursday, February 9, 2012)- William Theophilus Brown, a painter who enjoyed success for more than half-a-century and was closely associated with the San Francisco Bay area's "figurative" movement, has died.  He was 92.

Brown died Wednesday in his apartment at a San Francisco high-rise retirement community, gallery owner Thomas Reynolds told the San Francisco Chronicle.  He said Brown painted and took art classes until the end of his life.

Brown's partner of nearly 50 years, the celebrated artist Paul Wonner, died in 2008.

Brown was part of the figurative movement that art historians recognize as a period during the mid-20th century when artists moved away from extreme abstractionism and included some realism in their portraits, landscapes and still-lives.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in Sa   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4625 characters.]  Artist bio

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15 Book References for William Theophilus Brown
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2001 Landauer, Susan Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint 0 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Burgard, Timothy Anglin Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection 47 Yes
1995 Nash, Steven A Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 216 Yes
1993 Bowker R R Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts) 1473 No
1990 Jones, Caroline Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)
231 Yes
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1983 Monterey Peninsula Museum California Contemporary Recent Work of Twenty Three Artists
(Exhibition catalog)
63 No
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1968 Tampa Bay Art Center 40 Now California Painters
(Exhibition catalog)
48 Yes
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