AMERICAN SURREALIST Ink & Wash ~ CARLYLE BROWN ~ 1952 Magical Landscape ITALY

Description: Original drawing by American Surrealist/Magical Realist artist Carlyle Brown (1919-1963). The work dates from Brown's early years in Italy, it is dated 1952 and depicts a magical landscape of rocky hills. The work is signed and dated by the artist at bottom right, good sized at 13 x 20 1/2 inches and executed on buff colored artists paper. There is minor spotting, otherwise it is in excellent condition and should frame up beautifully. Carlyle Brown (1919-1963) was an American Surrealist painter and draughtsman. He was raised in Los Angeles and attended the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design in San Francisco from 1939 to 1940. During his wartime service in the U.S. Navy, Brown continued to draw and sketch and instituted a longtime correspondence with Russian/American Surrealist painter Pavel Tchelitchew who became his friend and mentor. At the beginning of 1946, encouraged by Tchelitchew, Brown moved to New York City and immediately immersed himself in the New York scene, meeting numerous artists and personalities. It was here that he accepted commissions from organizations in the fashion industry, such as Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. In 1947 he married Margery Hulett, who was in New York modeling for Vogue. They became world travelers, always returning to their apartment in New York City. In 1949, Brown moved his family abroad to Rome, Italy to create work within the artistic community in the Via Margutta. Brown’s body of work features three dimensional objects in European landscapes with surreal qualities, such as organic and textured shapes. While living in Italy, Carlyle Brown took part in many solo- and group-exhibitions in the United States, particularly at the Catherine Viviano Gallery in 1950, '51, '53, '55, '57 and '59, at the Bodley Gallery, also in New York, in 1962. Among the group-shows were exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1948 and 1951, the Art Institute in Chicago in 1951 and 1952, the Detroit Institute of Arts and the Toledo Museum of Art in 1951 and 1952, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1952, the Corcoran Art Gallery in Washington in 1957, 1959 and 1961. Tragically, Brown died quite young at the age of 44 in Rome from an overdose of drugs and alcohol. His works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, to name just a few and in many private collections.

Price: 450 USD

Location: Spring Hill, Florida

End Time: 2025-01-06T02:09:26.000Z

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