(13x19) Alice Dalton Brown Blues Come Through Art Print Poster

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a b Kingsley, April. "The Clear Light of Alice Dalton Brown," Alice Dalton Brown: Interior Spaces – Exterior Light, Springfield, MO: Springfield Art Museum, 1999. Retrieved January 10, 2023. Dalton Brown was born in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1939 and grew up in Ithaca, New York. [14] Her memories of the light, shadows and homes during her youth in the area would serve as later inspirations for her art. [15] After high school, Dalton Brown studied art at the Académie Julian and the L'Université de Grenoble in France before majoring in English at Cornell University. [14] [16] After transferring to Oberlin College, she earned a BA in studio art in 1962, working in a realist vein at odds with the day's dominant abstract modes. She was greatly influenced at Oberlin by art historian Wolfgang Stechow and his discussions of compositional dynamics and iconography. [17] [16]

Cooper, James. "Beautiful Flame Burns Under Brown’s Victorian Facade," New York Tribune, March 6, 1987.Wiles, Stephanie. Summer Breeze: Paintings & Drawings by Alice Dalton Brown, Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY2013. In the mid-1990s, Dalton Brown shifted her perspective, with scenes from inside houses looking out, most characteristically with through open windows whose diaphanous, windblown curtains enlivened otherwise still, bare rooms with an implied human presence. [7] [22] [33] [29] Paintings with lake scenes, such as Summer Breeze (1995), Blues Come Through. (1999) and Whisper (2001), emphasized an active play of light, shadow and geometry on curtains, walls, floors and water through reflection, refraction and distortion. [22] [26] [34] [35] Art in America critic Gerrit Henry described them as works of eternal summer, "crystal clear in their psychological pantheism" with "a glistening apprehension of sun and weather" and an eye for the extraordinary amid the everyday. [6] With works such as the elegiac Autumn Reverie (1998), Dalton Brown's emphasis shifted to the house's architecture and the varying visual effects created by windows, in that case within an elaborately conjoined triptych-like structure of transitional passage consisting of porch, doorway and interior. [31] [8] a b Kimmelman, Michael. "Review/Museums," The New York Times, May 5, 1989. p. C28. Retrieved January 11, 2023. a b Park, Han-sol. "Light breathes life into Alice Dalton Brown’s canvas," Korea Times, August 27, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2023. As a contemporary photorealist using the difficult medium of watercolor, Dalton Brown achieves beautifully detailed scenes of airy domestic views, breezy porch settings and dappled seascapes which inspire a romantic, meditative mood. Her light-filled interiors and fresh landscapes contain strong graphic compositions which divide space with broad planes of color, to which she adds her distinct photorealist detail to highlight the subject matter.

As a contemporary Realist using the medium of either oil on canvas or pastel on paper, Dalton Brown achieves beautifully detailed scenes of airy domestic views, breezy porch settings and dappled seascapes which inspire a romantic, meditative mood. Her light-filled interiors and fresh landscapes contain strong graphic compositions which divide space with broad planes of color, to which she adds her distinct Realist detail to highlight the subject matter. She completes her major paintings in her New York studio, working from her en plein air studies and collaged photographs. Dalton Brown is able to portray an acute sense of time and place in her work by her masterful rendering of light and shadow. Cooper, James. "Enchanted Sanctuary: Alice Dalton Brown," American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2000, p. 3–7. Dalton Brown has exhibited at institutions including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, [8] Butler Institute of American Art, [9] Bronx Museum of the Arts, Albright-Knox Museum, and McNay Art Museum. [2] She has been recognized by the American Academy in Rome and her work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [10] Johnson Museum, [11] Minneapolis Institute of Art, [12] and Tampa Museum of Art, among others. [2] After being based in New York City for over three decades, Dalton Brown splits time between Peekskill, New York and the state's Finger Lakes region, at Cayuga Lake. [13] Early life and career [ edit ] Alice was born in Pennsylvania in 1939 and grew up in New York. She studied art in Paris, Grenoble and America. Dalton Brown has exhibited her oil paintings all over the world and they form part of both corporate and private collections in America, Europeand beyond.

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a b c d Lee, Jangro. "Alice Dalton Brown Where the light Breathes," Weverse Magazine, September 24, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2023. a b c d Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2023. Her light-filled interiors and fresh landscapes contain strong graphic compositions, which divide space with broad planes of color, to which she adds her distinct Realist detail to highlight the subject matter. She completes her major paintings in her New York studio, working from her en plein air studies and collaged photographs. Dalton Brown is able to portray an acute sense of time and place in her work by her masterful rendering of light and shadow.