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Frederick James Brown

Frederick James Brown at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

New Acquisitions: In Celebration of Thirty Years of Kemper Museum

Contemporary Art and the Missouri Bicentennial

Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues, & Other Icons

Free-Flowing: The Inspiration of Improvisation in Works from the Kemper Museum Permanent Collection

Now, Then, and Tomorrow

The History of Art Series

Frederick James Brown
The History of Art Series

Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection

Fra Angelico (1397–1455), Vicchio di Mugello

Frans Hals (ca. 1580–1666)

De Kooning

Count Basie

George Inness (1825–1894), After Niagara

Frederick James Brown (b. 1945), Cortez Came

Frederick James Brown (b. 1945), Thinking of Mexico

(Dedicated to Edvins Strautmanis "He loved de Kooning's paintings and developed his style.")

Hans Holbein (1497–1543), Bust of a Young Man

Georges Rouault (1871–1958), Trois Juges

Edouard Manet (1832–1883), Woman with a Cat

Frederick James Brown (b. 1945), The Yellow Light

from Eskimo mythology, The Shadow Dragger

Fernando Botero (born 1932), Captain

Fernand Legér (1881–1955), Big Julie

Henri Rosseau (1844–1910), Jaguar Attacking a Horse

Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1267–1337), detail: Crucifix

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986), New York with Moon

Ellsworth Kelly (born 1923)

Drop Dead Fred

Edouard Manet (1832–1883), The Plum

Henri Matisse (1860–1954), Woman with a Black Cat

Frederick James Brown (b. 1945), Noah Went Home

Francis Bacon (born 1909)

George Bellows (1882–1925), Study for "Emma" in the Purple Dress

Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Woman in a Tub

Edward Hopper (1882–1967), New York Office

Helen Frankenthaler (born 1928)

Edvard Munch (1863–1944), Tanz de Lebens

Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), George Washington

Franz Josef Kline (1910–1962)

Dexter Gordon

Hans Hofmann (1880–1966)

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), The Source

Marc Chegall (1887–1985), Purim

Kenneth Noland (born 1924), Primary Colors

Knock and the Door Shall Open

Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), Bust of a Woman

Marcel Duchamp, from a photo by Richard Avedon (b. 1923)

John Singer Sargent (1856–1925 Paul Hellu Sketching with His Wife

Max Beckmann (1885–1950)

McKinley Morganfield "Muddy Waters"

Jean Baptiste Chardin (1699–1779), Soap Bubbles

Mark Rothko (1903–1970), Red & Black

Joseph Mallard William Turner (1775–1851), Burning of the Houses of Parliament

Jean-François Milet (1814–1875)

In the style of Mary Cassatt (1844–1926, Child in a Straw Hat (Portrait of Frederick James Brown's daughter Sebastienne at age eight)

Marilyn Monroe, from a photo by Philippe Halsman (b. 1906)

In the style of Rembrandt (1606–1669), Double Portrait: Rembrandt/Monk

Mask: Congo Kinshasa Bwame Society

In the style of Juan de Patreja (1599–1660) (Dedication: Thoughts of Tony Ramos)

Horace Pippin (1889–1946), Christmas

James Whistler (1834–1903), Nocturne

Kaslmir Malevich (1878–1935), Torso in a Yellow Shirt

Morris Louis (1912–62)

Milton Clark Avery (1893–1965), Spring Orchard

Joan Miró (1893–1983)

In the Style of Max Ernst (1891–1976), Surrealism and Painting

In the style of Hieronymus Bosch (ca. 1450–1516), St. Christopher

Jacob Lawrence (born 1917, from: Migration of the Negro

Johnnie Hodges

Joseph Albers (1888–1976), Homage to a Square Apparation

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), Te Arii Vahine

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Composition #3

René Magritte (1898–1967), La Folie des Grandeurs

Portrait of Bebe Kemper

Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640)

Navajo sand painting

Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), Martha Washing

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), detail: Still Life on a Pedestal Table

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), The Sailor

Nez Perce, Chief Joseph

Richard Diebenkorn (born 1922), Ocean Park

Otto Dix (1891–1969), Salon I

Paul Klee (1879–1940), Heroic Roses

Odilon Redon (1840–1916), La Grande Vase Verte

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Nude Woman in a Red Chair

Paul Cézanne (1838–1906), Apples and Biscuits

Photograph by Marcel Sternberger (born 1922), Diego Rivera

Portrait of R. Crosby Kemper

Star Search (Dedicated to all of the New York artists of the 1970s who dared to dream)

Sonny's Room

Songye (Zaire), detail: Statue de magie

Sonia Terk Delaunay (1885–1979), S.D. Fashion Grid

They Have the Right to Sing the Blues

Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975), Homestead

Thoughts of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), The Other Mona

The Magic Snake (Dedicated to all the Ancient Peoples)

To African-American Artists Spirits

Thoughts of Frank Stella

Titian (ca. 1480–1576), Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap

Stuart Davis (1894–1964), After International Surface 1960 #1

Albert Einstein, from a photograph by Philippe Halsman (born 1906)

Arshile Gorky (1904–1948), Abstraction 1936 (Dedicated with thanks to Barney Ebsworth)

Frederick James BrownAmerican, 1945–2012