Francis F. Brown Tempera Landscape Painting "Autumn's Golden Gown"

Item Details

Francis Focer Brown (Indiana/New Jersey, 1891 – 1971)
Autumn’s Golden Gown, mid 20th century
Tempera on paperboard
Signed to lower left
Title inscribed to verso

Born in Glassboro, New Jersey and later relocating to Indiana, Brown studied with William Forsyth and J. Otis Adams at the Herron School of Art and Design, and also attended Ball State and Ohio State. He participated in exhibitions at the Hoosier Salon, the Indiana Art Club, Pennsylvania Academy, Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Richmond Art Association. He is best known for his whimsical Post-Impressionist style regionalist landscape paintings of Indiana, and is purportedly referred to by some as ‘The American Van Gogh’.

Brown’s works are represented in the collections of numerous prestigious institutions including Indianapolis Museum of Art and Ball State University Museum of Art, among others.

Condition

- light accretion and mild yellowing to pigments across painting surface; wear to frame.

Dimensions

- painting measures 24″ × 20″.

Item #

ITMG274350