Charley Brown
SEASHELL LIPS
(Oil on canvas)
30" X 36"
Framed: 36" X 42"
Circa 1973
Charley Brown (1945 - 2018) was active/lived in California.
Charley Brown is known for Large scale mural painting,
geometric abstraction, collaborative commercial art.
Charley Brown, a native of Barstow
California, received both undergraduate and master's degrees
from Humboldt State University,
and studied at California College of the Arts in Oakland.
His work has been shown in galleries across the United States and Europe, as well as at the New Museum in New York City. Charley was co-founder of Evans & Brown, which creates murals and other art on commission, and designs wallcoverings and other interior furnishings.
Charley never had much to say about specific artistic influences, and always steered far clear of anything resembling an artist's statement. One essayist found debts to Francis Bacon and Caravaggio in a series of figurative paintings in the late 1990s.
Provenance
Previously from The Collection of Gail Feingarten Oppenheimer.
Condition:
Canvas shows signs of previous Framing.
Frame in new condition but may show signs of handling.
Charley Brown
SEASHELL LIPS
(Oil on canvas)
30" X 36"
Framed: 36" X 42"
Circa 1973
Charley Brown (1945 - 2018) was active/lived in California.
Charley Brown is known for Large scale mural painting,
geometric abstraction, collaborative commercial art.
Charley Brown, a native of Barstow
California, received both undergraduate and master's degrees
from Humboldt State University,
and studied at California College of the Arts in Oakland.
His work has been shown in galleries across the United States and Europe, as well as at the New Museum in New York City. Charley was co-founder of Evans & Brown, which creates murals and other art on commission, and designs wallcoverings and other interior furnishings.
Charley never had much to say about specific artistic influences, and always steered far clear of anything resembling an artist's statement. One essayist found debts to Francis Bacon and Caravaggio in a series of figurative paintings in the late 1990s.
Provenance
Previously from The Collection of Gail Feingarten Oppenheimer.
Condition:
Canvas shows signs of previous Framing.
Frame in new condition but may show signs of handling.
