Joan Brown papers
name: label: Creator
content: Brown, Joan, 1938-1990
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- San Francisco
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- San Francisco
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Material on reels 722-723 was lent for microfilming 1974 by Joan Brown. Additonal papers donated 1992 by the Joan Brown estate via Michael Hebel, Brown's husband and executor.
creator: label: Creator
content: Brown, Joan, 1938-1990
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Painter, professor; San Francisco, Calif.; d. 1990. Studied at the California School of Fine Arts 1955-1960 under Elmer Bischoff and others. Killed in an accident in Proddatura, India.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 142 Items
label: Extent
content: 0.6 Linear Feet (Addition)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1955-1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.browjoan
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reels 722 and 723 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Reels 722-723: Originals were returned to lender after microfilming.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: REELS 722-723: Correspondence, 1959-1974, chiefly with galleries and museums; biographical material, including lists of paintings and collections where Brown is represented; 21 catalogues and announcements; 29 clippings; a baby book, 1962-1971, about her son, Noel; 45 photographs, including photos of Brown, artists, her husbands Manuel Neri and Gordon Cook, Leo Valledor, and Jay DeFeo, gallery owner George Staempfli, and collages which were later destroyed. Much of the material in the photographs and baby book was used as subject matter and inspiration for her paintings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: ADDITION: Biographical material, letters, bibliography, newspaper and magazine articles, exhibition catalogs and announcements, 1974-1990.