Joan Brown: Friends and Family: Selected Paintings 1970-1973

George Adams Gallery will present a selection of paintings from the early 1970s by Joan Brown during September and October. Titled “Family and Friends,” this small exhibition will include portraits of Tinye van Arnsdale and a fellow student of her swimming coach named Eileen.  The show also features two large-scale, psychologically charged paintings, “Family Portrait” with the artist literally depicted as fish out of water, and the iconic self-portrait, “Self-Portrait with Fish.” In addition, two unusual anecdotal still-life paintings from this period will be on view.


Checklist

1.  
Self-Portrait with Fish and Cat, 1970
enamel on masonite
96 x 48 inches
JBRp 14

2.  
The Colonel in the Garden of Allah, 1972
enamel on masonite
90 x 48 inches
JBRp 25

3.  
Family Portrait, 1971
enamel on masonite
97 x 50 inches
JBRp 65

4.  
Portrait of Tinye van Arnsdale, 1972
enamel on panel
48 x 36 inches
JBRp 66

5.  
Crystal Vase, 1972
enamel on panel
29 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches
JBRp 68