American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes
Artist
Roger Brown
American, 1941–1997
Date1983
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 84 × 144 in. (213.4 × 365.8 cm)
frame: 84 5/8 × 146 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (214.9 × 372.1 × 6.4 cm)
frame: 84 5/8 × 146 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (214.9 × 372.1 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Madeleine Johnson Heidrick Bequest
Object number84.2
On View
On viewProvenanceCreated Chicago or New Buffalo, MI, 1984; collection of the artist; [Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 1984.
Published ReferencesCarter Ratcliff, "Roger Brown at Phyllis Kind," (exhibition review) Art in America 72 (May 1984), noted 168.
[Mitchell Kahan] "Recent Acquisitions." North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1984), 12.
"Principales Acquisitions des Musées en 1984," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 1394 (March 1985), listed 75.
Sidney Lawrence, Roger Brown (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1987), cat. no. 45, illus. (b-w).
Ellen Edwards, "The Painter at 45, Reaching beyond Chicago's Horizons," Washington Post (August 12, 1987), C1, C6, discussed C6.
Paul Richard, "At the Hirshhorn, Glowing Colors, Formulaic Memories (exhibition review)," Washington Post (August 12, 1987), C1, C4, discussed C4.
Edward J. Sozanski, "Roger Brown: Strong and growing stronger (exhibition review)," Des Moines Sunday Register (August 23, 1987), noted 5C.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 287.
Huston Paschal, entry for American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 247, illus. (color).
Jennifer Dasal, entry for American Landscape with Revolutionary Heroes, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 522, illus. (color) 523.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Phyllis Kind Gallery, "Roger Brown," February 11-March 7, 1984.
Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Paintings with a Social Conscience from the Permanent Collection," Feb. 7-July 5, 1985.
Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, "Roger Brown," August 13-October 18, 1987; La Jolla, CA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, November 20, 1987-January 10, 1988; Coral Gables, FL, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, February 11-March 27, 1988; Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Art Center, April 28-June 12, 1988, no. 45, illus. (b-w).
Savannah, GA, Telfair Museum of Art's Jepson Center for the Arts, "Fast Forward: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," January 23-April 27, 2008.
Wilmington, NC, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, "Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art," May 22, 2008-May 17, 2009.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present.
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