Biografie von Roger BROWN (1941-1997)

Birth place: Hamilton, AL

Addresses: Chicago, IL

Profession: Painter

Studied: Am. Acad. Art, Chicago, Ill.; AIC Sch., BFA & MFA.

Exhibited: Spirit of the Comics, Inst. Contemp. Art, Phila., 1969 & Am. Fedn. Arts, 1970-1971; Works by Chicago Artists, San Fran. Art List, 1970; Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, 1971 (solo); Sacramento State Art Gallery, 1971 (solo); Chicago School: Imagist Art 1947-1972, Mus. Contemp. Art, Chicago, 1972; WMAA, 1973, 1979; Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1970s. Awards: Renaissance Prize, AIC, 1969 & Walter Campana Prize, 1971; AIC Sch. Joseph Ryerson foreign travel fel., 1970.

Work: AIC; Elmhurst Col., Ill.; Kresge Found., Detroit, Mich.; Ill. Bell Tel. Coll., Chicago; Playboy Coll., Chicago. Commissions: painting, Main Bank Chicago, 1972.

Comments: Preferred media: oil. Publications: illus., Song of Susan," 10/1970, "Four Poems by Yevtushenko," 10/1971 & "Encounter in Munich," 3/1972, Playboy Mag.

Sources: WW73; Halstead, "Chicago" (1969) & Linville, "New York" (1970), Artforum; Franz Schulze, Fantastic Images: Chicago Art since 1945 (Follet, 1972)."