Joan Brown’s pithy, self-assured paintings are kaleidoscopic narratives that are simultaneously autobiographical and mythic. She was an original and uncompromising artist. “The more I am able to ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s online promotion for its Joan Brown retrospective suggests we need an introduction to the Bay Area painter who flourished in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s. So she’s ...

Brown likely could have gone on painting commercially successful works in the same vein (one graced the cover of the influential Artforum magazine in 1963). Despite the monthly stipend at stake she ...

San Francisco legend Joan Brown’s first major retrospective at SFMOMA is a spiritual lesson in letting go. Boasting 80 paintings and sculptures across nine galleries, the show chronicles Brown’s ...

SFMOMA is celebrating Joan Brown's first major retrospective by giving you the chance to have your pet captured through their own original portrait. The museum is partnering with the San Francisco ...