Contrail Crucifix

Contemporary Art

1975

Roger Brown
American, 1941–1997

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Roger Brown
Title: Contrail Crucifix
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1975
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 152.4 × 101.6 cm (60 × 40 in.)
Credit Line: Promised gift of Richard Rosenzweig and Judy Henning
Reference Number: Obj: 179789

Sidney Lawrence and John Yau, Roger Brown, exh. cat. (New York: G. Braziller; Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1987), 40, cat. 16 (color ill.).
Paul Richard, “Roger Brown’s Places in The Art: At the Hirshhorn, Glowing Colors, Bracing Images Brown’s Art, The Washington Post, Aug. 12, 1987, C1.
Leah Ollman, “Disaster Lurks Behind Brown’s Neat, Pristine Paintings” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 28, 1987, 10 (ill.).
Maurice Tuchman, Carol S. Eliel, and Jim Drobka, Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 166, fig. 146 (color ill.), 311.
Richard Christiansen, “‘Parallel Visions’: Outsider art has the inside track on the Coast” Chicago Tribune, Dec. 20, 1992, M14 (ill.).
Lynne Cooke, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C: National Gallery of Art, 2018), 19, fig. 14 (ill., installation), 225, pl. 114 (color ill.), 338, 375.
Lisa Stone and Dan Nadel, Roger Brown, exh. cat. (New York: Venus Over Manhattan, 2019), 20 (color ill.).

Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Roger Brown, Aug. 13-Oct. 18, 1987, cat. 16; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Nov. 20, 1987-Jan. 10, 1988; Miami, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Feb.11- Mar. 27,1988; Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center, Apr. 28-June 12, 1988.
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Oct. 18, 1992-Jan. 3, 1993, cat. 146; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Feb. 11-May 9, 1993; Basel, Kunsthalle Basel, July 4-Aug. 29, 1993; Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Sept. 30-Dec. 12, 1993.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, Jan. 28-May 13, 2018, cat. 114, checklist; Atlanta, High Museum of Art, June 24–Sept. 30, 2018; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Nov. 18, 2018–Mar. 18, 2019.

The artist; sold through Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, to Richard Rosenzweig and Judy Henning, Chicago, later Beverly Hills, May 16, 1973 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; promised as a gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 12, 2024.

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