Joe Brown Bronze Nude Sculpture 1949

Bronze figure - 12 5/8"

Bronze figure including plinth - 13 1/2"

Wood base - 5" X 7"

Signed and dated on base - Joe Brown 1949

Excellent original condition with fine patina

Brown - 1909 - 1985

Artist, educator and athlete, Joe Brown was the pre-eminent sports sculptor of his time. Born in Philadelphia, he entered Temple University in 1927 on a football scholarship. Brown apprenticed to sculptor, physician, and educator Dr. R. Tait McKenzie. In 1938, he joined the faculty of Princeton University as a boxing coach, and two years later, he became the Resident Fellow in Sculpture. Brown continued coaching until 1962 at which time he became a full Professor of Art. He taught sculpture until he retired in 1977.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the University of Pennsylvania, Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, Columbia University, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the New Jersey State Art Museum, the Kennedy Memorial Library and the Woodmere Art Museum, among many others.

Collections

MacCoy Memorial, Princeton, New Jersey Leroy Mills Memorial Rosengarten Trophy Raycroft Trophy Clarke Intra-mural Trophy Firestone Library, Princeton, New Jersey Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Clarence Irvine Memorial, Collingwood, New Jersey Lehigh University

Exhibitions

National Academy of Design, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1944 Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, 1942 Philadelphia Public Library, 1949-51 Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1949 Firestone Library, Princeton, New Jersey Woodmere Art Gallery, 1950 Exposition, Montreal, Canada, 1967

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