John George Brown, ctd

The final set of paintings by JG Brown.

The Peacemaker (1867)

 The Teacher (1866)

 The Transit of Venus (1883)

[there was a transit of Venus in June 2012; the painting depicts the December 1882 transit]

 The Young Mother (1875)

 Three Girls on a Swing (1868)

 Thus Perish the Memory of Our Love (1865)

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 Waiting for William (1879)

 We Can't Be Caught (ca. 1876)

What's Your Name? (1876)

The child in this schoolroom scene, acting as a teacher's monitor, has just written two columns of names under "bad" and "excellent" on the blackboard. Her gaze has a concentrated intensity that immediately engages the viewer. At the top of the "bad" column, the name "Belle Brown" appears, perhaps offering a clue to the young girl's identity. Belle Brown, a daughter of the artist by his first wife Mary Owen, was born in 1864 and would have been twelve years old at the time Brown completed this work.
(from Domestic Bliss: Family Life in American Painting, 1840-1910, by Lee M. Edwards and Timothy Anglin Burgard, p. 112)

John George Brown, ctd

 Autumn Landscape (1870)

 Bluffing (1885)

 Daisy McComb Holding a Pink Rose (1888)

 My Best Friend (1903)

 The Bully of the Neighborhood (1866)

 The Gang (ca. 1894)

 The Industrious Family (ca. 1905)

 The Longshoreman's Noon (1879)

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The Music Lesson (1870)

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John George Brown, ctd

Picnic Party in the Woods (1872)

 Pull for the Shore (1878)

 Resting in the Woods (1866)

 Saint Patrick's Day (1877)

 Tête à Tête (1888-90)

 The Card Trick (1880-89)

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 The Cherry Picker (1875)

 The Cider Mill (1880)

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 The Country Gallants (1876)

 The Flower Girl (1877)

The Fur Muff (1864)

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 Curling, a Scottish Game, at Central Park (1862)

 A Daughter of the Revolution

 Deer Hunter in the Woods (1864)

 Dress Parade (1878)

 Gathering Autumn Leaves (1875)

 Golden Locks, Left Behind (1880)

 Have a Game? (ca. 1872)

 Hiding in the Old Oak (1873-74)

 Home Comforts (ca. 1893)

 Old Memories (1868)

On the Hudson (1867)

John George Brown

John George Brown (1831-1913) was an English-born American genre painter. His artistic depictions of urban life are an invaluable supplement to the photographic record of the time. Much of his work focuses on children. This is the first of four sets of paintings by Brown.

 A Breezy Morning (1876)

 A Jolly Lot (1885)

 A Liberated Woman (1895)

[dating from the time when it was considered scandalous for a woman to smoke]

 A New Weight (1883)

 A Thrilling Moment (1880)

 Among the Trees (1873-77)

 Buy a Posy (1881)

 Camp in the Maine Woods (1879)

 Claiming the Shot: After the Hunt in the Adirondacks (1865)

 Cleaning Fish (1877)

Crossing the Stream (1864)