 Artist's arttributes:
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Painting |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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George Adams Gallery, USA |
54 |
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San Jose Museum of Art, USA |
6 |
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Gallery Paule Anglim, USA |
4 |
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New Museum of Contemporary Art, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1938 Born in San Francisco, CA (US)
1990 Died
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 111
Solo shows 26
2011
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| This Kind Of Bird Flies Backward - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Selected Drawings, 1957-1987 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joan Brown - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
2008
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| Joan Brown:Friends and Family: Selected Paintings 1970-1973 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Joan Brown:The Affair - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Joan Brown - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
2004
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| Joan Brown:Painted Constructions - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Joan Brown - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
2001
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| Joan Brown - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Joan Brown - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Joan Brown: Drawings from the Mid 70's - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Joan Brown: Major Works from the Early 1970s - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Joan Brown: Memorial Exhibition - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Joan Brown: Figure Drawings from the Early 70s - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1988
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| Joan Brown: New Paintings and Sculpture - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| The Golden Age - Joan Brown - San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA |
1985
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| Joan Brown: The Golden Age: New Paintings and Sculpture - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Joan Brown: Bathers - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Joan Brown: Indian Paintings - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joan Brown: The Saga of Greedy Cat - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Joan Brown / MATRIX 24 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Joan Brown: New Paintings - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1978
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| Joan Brown: The Acrobat Series - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
1977
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| Joan Brown / Matrix 30 - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
1976
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| Joan Brown: New Paintings - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1971
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| Arts of San Francisco 1971: Joan Brown: Paintings - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
Group shows 85
2012
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| The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| OC Collects - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Viva La Raspberries - Harris Lieberman, New York City, NY |
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| Between Abstract and Figurative - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| Spring Exhibition - Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA |
2011
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| Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Circle of Friends: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| About Face: Portraits from the Minnesota Museum of American Art - Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN |
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| Important Artworks - George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2010
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| New and Classic - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 40 - Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Rehistoricizing Abstract Expressionism SFbay, 1950s-1960s - The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA |
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| Visionaries: Contemporary Art from Santa Barbara’s Private Collections - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| The Secret Language of Animals - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| Different Strokes: 20th Century Drawing - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Juicy Paint - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Paint Made Flesh - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| Spaced Out / On Time - Canada, New York City, NY |
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| Sight Vision Revisited - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
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| Paint Made Flesh - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| San Francisco Art Institute Alumni & Faculty: A Thin Slice - Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Get with the Program: Group Show - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Paint Made Flesh - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
2008
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| Twenty-Five Treasures - Paul Thiebaud Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Girls and Company: Feminist Works from MMoCA’s Permanent Collection - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
2007
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| California Context - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| San Francisco and the Second Wave - Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA |
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| Semina Culture - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Aspects of Humanity - CCAS - Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, Sacramento, CA |
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| Bay Area Figurative 1950s and 1960s - Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA |
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| GROUP SHOW - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| A Window on the West - California Art from the Permanent Collection - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Body Language - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Looking Back and Seeing Forward, A 90th Anniversary Exhibition - - Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2008) |
2004
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| It’s About Time - Celebrating 35 Years - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain - Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC |
2003
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| The Pilot Hill Collection of Contemporary Art - The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX |
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| Multiple Artists: Print and Editioned Works, 1967-2003 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Bay Area Artists - - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2009) |
2002
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| Hand Picked: Selected works from Magnolia Editions - JayJay, Sacramento, CA |
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| Parallels and Intersections - Art/Women/California, 1950-2000 - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| Me, Myself & I: Self-Portraits by Gallery Artists - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| San Francisco Abstract Expressionism - - Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2009) |
2000
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| Attitude: Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture, 1960-1969 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
1999
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| The Permanent Collection - Into the 21st Century - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
1998
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| Views From the Bay Area: The Shift Toward Figuration - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Animals as Muse - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
1997
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| The Morgan Flagg Collection - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
1996
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| Hans Hofmann and the New York School - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Going Places - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Out of 'Toon - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| California in the 1960's: Funk Revisited - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| California in the 1970s: Bay Area Painting and Sculpture Revisited - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Group Exhibition - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Figure Drawing - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Faces - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Sculpture & Color, Part I - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1988
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| Large Paintings - Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
1987
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| Summer Show, Part 2: The Landscape Observed/ Imagined - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Eccentric Drawings and Works on Paper - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Online Cutout Silhouette - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Joan Brown & William T. Wiley - Large-Scale Works - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1984
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| Anniversary Exhibition - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Studio - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Jack Beal & Joan Brown: The Early Sixties - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Gallery Group Show - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Language, Drama, Source & Vision - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Self-Portraits Part II: The Antic Vision - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1982
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| American Painting and Sculpture 74th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Early Work - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1981
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| California, sense of individualism - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
1980
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| Early and Late - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1979
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| Group Show - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Large Scale Works on Paper - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The 1970s: New American Painting - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Jack Beal, Joan Brown, and James McGarrell: Works on Paper - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1978
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| New Work by Gallery Artists - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Works on Paper - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Bad' Painting - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1977
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| Summer Show - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1976
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| Bicentennial Exhibition - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1975
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| Summer Show - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Portrait Painting 1970-1975 - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1961
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| American Exhibition 64th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| Dealer Directory 2 |
USA
| | George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 15
USA
| | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
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| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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| | Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
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| | Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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| | Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
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| | The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
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| | Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
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