"Browning has a distinct brand of figurative painting, with subjects ranging from worshipers in a Guatemalan church to graffiti-covered Harlem subway cars to still life compositions. Her work is largely recognized for its superior command of materials and media and for her unwavering devotion to understanding the human condition. She was a prominent contributor to the realist revival of the 1990s, and she continued to paint until the very last years of her life. In the 1950s, her work was shown at the Edwin Hewitt Gallery in New York, the destination for realist art of the decade, and she won numerous annual exhibition awards, including the Carnegie International. Her work was included in the National Academy of Design's yearly exhibitions, and she exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial exhibitions, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Kennedy Galleries in New York. She was elected a National Academician in 1966 and served as an officer at the Academy. This is the first extensive study of her life and work produced during her 50-year career."--Publisher description

Eliasoph, Philip; Browning, Colleen

Philip Eliasoph; Colleen Browning

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester

Manchester [Vt.]: Hudson Hills Press

Hudson Hills Press LLC

United States, United States of America

New York, Woodbridge, 2012

Manchester, Vermont, 2011

Includes bibliographical references and index.

240 p. : 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
A retrospective overview: "sailing into the 'sea of life'" -- Disguises, enigmas, and espionage: art & illusion -- Royal subjects: for Crown & Country, 1918-1937 -- London bridges: renaissance models to avant-garde cinema, 1937-1949 -- East side, west side, all around the town: east Harlem & Greenwich Village, 1949-1952 -- The enchantment of magic realism: fame & seclusion from "The family of man," 1953-1960 -- The academician and the professor: Barbarians at the gates- exotic travels + underground graffiti, 1960-1980 -- The dream: myths & seances late into her "new age," 1980s-2003

The first monograph on one of the few women Realist painters, Colleen Browning, who painted streetscapes of Harlem, and Manhattan.

2024-08-23