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Roger Brown Estate Collection of Paintings
and Prints
Through a series of gifts and bequests The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago (SAIC) has become the primary repository of the personal, intellectual,
and artistic effects of alumnus Roger Brown. His generosity to the School
included a remarkable group of paintings and prints. Brown’s gift
of paintings is divided into two groups: the Roger Brown Permanent
Collection, a study collection of works that are available for
study and exhibition, and the Roger Brown Estate Collection of
Paintings and Prints. Works from the Estate Collections
are offered for sale to museums and private collectors, and are available
for loan to museum exhibitions. Proceeds from the sale of paintings and
prints provide the primary source of operating support for the Roger Brown
Study Collection (link).
Resources
SAIC is in the unique position to share a wealth of artistic, personal,
and intellectual resources from the RBSC Archive with collectors and
institutions considering loans or purchases. The RBSC Archive includes
Brown’s sketchbooks from early/student years to the early 1990s.
From these we can often provide images from Brown’s creative process
for a specific work or art, or a time frame in Brown’s career.
We can often provide provenance, exhibition and publication histories,
and at times we can find references to specific works or ideas in Brown’s
writings. For museums considering a purchase, it may be possible to
arrange an exhibit of Brown’s works from the School’s collections,
to enrich your audience’s understanding of the art of Roger Brown.
We welcome museum group tours of the RBSC.
Sales
SAIC has retained Russell Bowman as the SAIC/Roger
Brown Estate Advisor.
For sales and/or exhibition information please contact Russell Bowman
at:
Russell Bowman Art Advisory
311 West Superior Street, Suite 115
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Telephone: 312. 751-9500
Fax: 312. 751-9572
Email: rb@bowmanart.com
Russell Bowman was Director of the Milwaukee Art Museum from
1985 to August 2002, when he left to form Russell Bowman Art Advisory.
He served as Chief Curator of the museum from 1980 to 1985, and was
Director of Education at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago from
1978 to 1980. During his tenure as Director, the Milwaukee Art Museum
opened the renown Santiago Calatrava designed addition, ranked among
the top ten museums nationally in revenue from traveling exhibitions,
and added such significant collections as the Michael and Julie Hall
Collection of American Folk Art, the Landfall Press Archive, ten works
by Georgia O’Keeffe, and the Granvil and Marcia Specks Collection
of German Expressionist Prints. Bowman has been integrally involved
in promoting works by Roger Brown and other Imagist artists over the
years, and has contributed to the scholarship on the art of Roger Brown
in museum catalogues and other publications. SAIC is honored to have
Russell Bowman’s expertise and involvement in the custodianship
of Roger Brown’s posthumous career.
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| Rosa Foetida
Bi-color,
1994, oil on canvas |
Roger Brown Catalogue / Registry
The RBSC maintains a catalogue of Brown’s work, including a registry
of collectors, which will form the basis for an eventual catalogue raisonne.
We receive numerous requests for loans and reproduction permissions.
If you own a work or works by Roger Brown we would like to include your
contact information and information about the work(s) in this registry.
We will not give your name out, but will notify you of requests for
loans and/or reproduction permissions. (SAIC owns the copyright to all
of Brown’s works, unless otherwise assigned, and can grant permission
for works to be reproduced. When we receive reproduction requests we
make every attempt to contact the owner before granting permission.)
For additional information or to provide information
for the Roger Brown Catalogue / Registry, please contact:
Lisa Stone, curator
Roger Brown Study Collection
1926 North Halsted Street
Chicago, IL 60614
Telephone: 773. 929-2452
Fax: 773. 665-4802
Email: lstone@artic.edu
Please enjoy this online gallery of Roger Brown paintings and prints.
Photos of all paintings and prints by William H. Bengtson.
To enter the Roger Brown Online Paintings
and Prints Collections, click the area of interested below:
Roger Brown Estate Painting Collection
Roger
Brown Estate Print Collection
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