About this artwork
Noted for her dedication to the figure, and her immediacy of touch, Joan Brown was among the youngest artists associated with the so-called Bay Area Figurative Painters. Influenced by the presence of animals in Old Master paintings by Velázquez and Rembrandt, Brown often included her family pets in compositions such as this one. Bob, a bull terrier, was the family dog, and was particularly devoted to Brown. Her son Noel once remarked that “Bob was so vain, he probably knew when he was being drawn or painted. We used to refer to him as ‘Bob the tax-deductible dog.’ ”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Joan Brown
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Title
- Bob the Dog
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1964
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Medium
- Collage composed of gouache and graphite on cut and torn cream and ivory wove papers
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Dimensions
- 69.9 × 129 cm (27 9/16 × 50 13/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Adele and Willard Gidwitz Endowment
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Reference Number
- 2012.380
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Copyright
- © 1964 Estate of Joan Brown.
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