Francis F. Brown Abstract Tempera Landscape Painting, Mid-20th Century
Item Details
Francis Focer Brown (Indiana/New Jersey, 1891 – 1971)
Untitled (landscape), circa 1960
Tempera painting on canvas
Signed “Francis F. Brown” to lower right
Born in Glassboro, New Jersey and later relocating to Indiana, Brown studied with William Forsyth and J. Otis Adams at the Herron School of Art and Design, and also attended Ball State and Ohio State. He participated in exhibitions at the Hoosier Salon, the Indiana Art Club, Pennsylvania Academy, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Richmond Art Association. He is best known for his whimsical Post-Impressionist style regionalist landscape paintings of Indiana, and is purportedly referred to by some as “The American Van Gogh”.
Brown’s works are represented in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions including Indianapolis Museum of Art and Ball State University Museum of Art, among others.
Condition
- negligible accretions to canvas, with frame abrasions to perimeter; patch applied to verso to upper center, with additional tearing and denting to upper right; light scratching to frame, with minor finish loss in areas.
Dimensions
- measures the frame; sight size 23.5" W x 19.75" H.
- Item not examined outside of mounting.
Item #
ITMG853453
