Joan Brown is one of the best known and well-loved artists to have emerged out of California during the 1960s. Although she began painting in an Abstract Expressionist manner while studying at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Arts Institute) during the 1950s, it is Brownís figurative work that captured the attention of the public and critics alike. These paintings, which she began in the early 1960s, depict figures and locales drawn from the artistís personal life in bold, exuberant color and spontaneous swathes of viscous paint. By the 1970s, Brown had become increasingly preoccupied with spirituality, and her paintings, often self-portraits, grew to incorporate both figures and symbolic images of totem-like animals. An accomplished printmaker, Brown produced a series of characteristically vivid lithographs and mixed media prints at Magnolia shortly before her tragic death in India, at the age of 52.
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