Gary Hugh Brown
{{short description|American painter}}
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| birth_date = 1941
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| known_for = Painting, drawing, printmaking, journaling
| education = DePauw University (BA)
University of Wisconsin–Madison (MFA)
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| awards = The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, Travel Grant
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Gary Hugh Brown (born 1941){{cite web|url=http://art-collections.museum.ucsb.edu/items/show/7629|title=Brown, Gary H., Fortune|work=UCSB ADA Museum Omeka|place=Goleta, California |access-date=December 7, 2022}} is an American artist, painter, draftsman, and professor emeritus of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Brown has a drawing in the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. He has exhibited his work in Japan, Ireland, Brazil, and the United States.
Early life and education
Brown was born to Earl Hugh and Dorothy Aileen Brown in 1941, in Evansville, Indiana.{{cite book|last=McCray |first=Marilyn|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CzpQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Gary+Brown%22+%22Evansville,+Indiana%22|title=Electroworks|publisher=International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House|place=Michigan|date=1979|access-date=2023-09-19}} While a student, Brown designed and painted sets for the Mesker Amphitheatre in Evansville.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113719614/one-man-exhibit/ |title=University of Colorado Student Holding One-Man Art Exhibit|work=Evansville Courier and Press|place=Evansville, Indiana|date=February 7, 1962|access-date=2022-11-12}}
In 1966, Brown received a Master of Fine Arts from University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.{{cite news |last1=Carey |first1=Ann |title=Gary Brown masters |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/evansville-press-gary-brown-masters/132093008/ |work=Evansville Press |date=30 August 1966 |pages=11}}
Career
Brown worked as an artist in Wisconsin, exhibiting his art at several galleries in the area. In that same year he accepted a position as assistant professor at UCSB. In September 1966, Brown had a one-person exhibition at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville, Indiana, where he was reviewed by The Courier-Journal. In February 1971, Brown's watercolors were displayed at the Plaza Gallery of Fine Arts in Oxnard, California. His work was influenced by his travels.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_artweek_1971-01-16_2_3/page/n7/mode/2up?q=%22Gary+H.+Brown%22 |title=Artweek 1971-01-16: Vol 2 Iss 3|work=Spaulding Publishing Inc |place=|date=1971-01-16|page=8|access-date=2022-11-15}} Another exhibition in 1972, selected by Richard Ames, a critic for the Santa Barbara News-Press, was at the Gallery de Silva in Montecito Village. It included Landscape Reflection, a self-portrait of Brown done in 1971.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112999891/gallery-de-silva/|title=Exhibits|work=The Tribune|place=San Luis Obispo, California|date=October 20, 1979|page=|access-date=November 13, 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_artweek_1972-02-26_3_9/page/4/mode/2up?q=%22Gary+H.+Brown%22 |title=Artweek 1972-02-26: Vol 3 Iss 9|work=Spaulding Publishing Inc |place=|date=1972-02-26|access-date=2022-11-15}} Brown did the drawings of the Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, by poet and author Morton Marcus in November 1972.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113113790/reprint-of-santa-cruz-mountain-poems/|title=A city boy in the land or redwoods|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel|place=Santa Cruz, California|date=May 1, 1992|access-date=2022-11-15}}{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113113414/santa-cruz-mountain-poems/ |title=Mountain Man Writes Poetry|work=Santa Cruz Sentinel |place=Santa Cruz, California|date=November 12, 1972|access-date=2022-11-15}}
Included in Anthology were Brown's drawings of the Devereaux Series sketchbooks and prints at the Art/Life Gallery.{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113073691/deveraux-series/ |title=Calendar Art|work=The Los Angeles Times|place=Los Angeles, California|date=November 7, 1982|access-date=2022-11-14}}
In November 1991, Brown had a solo exhibition at the Allan Hancock College Art Gallery in Santa Maria, California.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113001025/allan-hancock-college/ |title=Brown display at Hancock|work=Times-Press-Recorder|place=Arroyo Grande, California|date=November 13, 1991|access-date=November 13, 2022}}
His work was displayed at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in 1966{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112890794/evansville-museum-of-arts/|title=Young Artist's Giant Drawings A Strike for 'Independence'?|publisher=The Courier-Journal|place=Louisville, Kentucky|date=September 11, 1966|page=|access-date=November 11, 2022}} and in one man shows Folded Drawings, at the Fleischer-Anhalt gallery, Los Angeles in 1967.{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/113014400/fleischer-anhalt/|title=Art And Artist 'Delicate Chords'|work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News|place=Hollywood, California|date=January 19, 1968|access-date=2022-11-12}}
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