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SUMMARY:William Theophilus Brown: In the Studio
DESCRIPTION:Paul Thiebaud Gallery is pleased to announce William Theophilus Brown: In the Studio\, an exhibition of thirteen paintings on canvas\, panel\, and paper from the artist’s estate\, opening on Saturday\, January 18\, 2025\, with a reception from 3-5pm and remarks at 3:30pm.  Well known as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement and for his focus on painting the male form\, the exhibition features a selection of Brown’s works from across five decades of his career.  Sometimes clothed\, but more often nude\, the selected paintings include single figures in various poses\, depictions of studio drawing sessions with a model and other artists\, images of Brown’s favorite model Jamie Yates\, and a self-portrait at the age of 79.  The exhibition will be on view through March 8\, 2025. \n  \nFirst emerging as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement in the 1950s\, by the end of the 1960s William Theophilus Brown began searching for new subject matter and a fresh style of painting.  He found his inspiration in portraiture and the male form\, often depicted nude.  These subjects and others would be rendered in the more polished\, contained painting method that Brown shifted to around 1970 and which would define the latter half of his career.  Showcased in the exhibition are two large canvas works\, Portrait of Shawn (1970) and Untitled (David M.) (1981-1996) from a series of large-scale\, full length portraits Brown began in 1970.  Alongside them are studies of single\, two-person\, and group compositions of male nudes arranged sitting\, standing and lying prone in Brown’s studio. Among them are two renderings of his favorite model Jamie Yates\, as well as a self-portrait of the artist sitting at his studio table.  Brown structures his pictorial arrangements by surrounding each sitter with a backdrop at times as classic as a supplely draped cloth\, while in others he has included tables\, chairs\, and other objects to create more complex formal relationships. \n  \nThroughout his career\, Brown regularly participated in model drawing sessions with other artists.  Two such sessions are depicted in respective works\, with the other artists shown either in the fore- or background.  This compositional motif has a long history in western art and is one Brown mined regularly in his drawings and paintings.  Brown’s choice to focus on the male form is one that sets him apart in the history of American and European art\, with its long history of celebrating the female figure.  It was a provocative and revolutionary move in 1970 when he set upon that path. \n  \nBorn in Moline\, Illinois in 1919\, William Theophilus Brown earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music from Yale University in 1941 and an MFA in painting from the University of California\, Berkeley in 1954.  From the 1950s until the mid-1970s\, Brown he taught painting at several universities\, including the University of California\, Berkeley\, the California School of Fine Arts (later known as the San Francisco Art Institute)\, Stanford University\, University of Kansas at Lawrence\, and the University of California\, Davis. \n  \nIn 1957\, Brown’s paintings were included in the seminal show Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting\, which codified the Bay Area Figurative movement as revolutionary in its pushing back at the dominance of Abstract Expressionism then reigning in the art world.  Curated by Paul Mills at the Oakland Art Museum\, the exhibition included the works of David Park\, Elmer Bischoff\, Richard Diebenkorn\, Paul Wonner\, Bruce McGaw\, Joseph Brooks\, Robert Downs\, Robert Qualters\, Walter Snelgrove\, Henry Villierme\, and James Weeks.  The show later travelled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Dayton Art Institute\, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. \n  \nIn 2023\, The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento\, CA organized Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown\, the first full career retrospective for Brown and his life partner Paul Wonner.  The exhibition later travelled to the Laguna Art Museum\, Laguna Beach\, CA and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis\, TN. \n  \nWilliam Theophilus Brown’s paintings\, drawings\, and prints have been exhibited extensively across the United States and can be found in numerous private and public collections\, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art\, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art; National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C.; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery\, University of Nebraska\, Lincoln; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum; San Jose Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Centre at Stanford University; Anderson Collection at Stanford University; and di Rosa Centre for Contemporary Art\, among many others.  William Theophilus Brown died in San Francisco\, CA in 2012 at the age of 93. \n  \nAll sales of works from the Estate benefit The Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown Endowment Fund at the Crocker Art Museum\, which supports projects relating to emerging artists or lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, queer or questioning\, and intersex (LGBTQI+) artists.  Proceeds go to the acquisition\, care\, exhibition\, scholarship\, and publication of art by emerging and LGBTQI+ artists\, along with related public programs.
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LOCATION:Paul Thiebaud Gallery\, 645 Chestnut Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94133\, United States
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SUMMARY:Paul Wonner: A Bountiful Feast
DESCRIPTION:Paul Thiebaud Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Paul Wonner: A Bountiful Feast on Saturday\, January 18th from 3-5pm\, with remarks at 3:30pm.  On view from the artist’s estate will be twelve paintings on paper from Wonner’s heralded series of still lifes from the second half of his career.  Full of produce\, cut flowers\, and other everyday objects arranged on broad flat surfaces\, Wonner’s works celebrate the common objects of contemporary life through his modern reinterpretation of the historic genre of the still life.  The exhibition will be on view through March 8\, 2025. \n  \nUsing vivid colors and complex compositional arrangements\, Paul Wonner took his inspiration for this series from 17th and 18th century Dutch still life paintings.  In doing so\, however\, Wonner turned the traditional notions about the appearance and meaning of a still life completely on their head.  Through Wonner’s artistic lens\, the perspectival plane has been tilted up to exaggerate the foreground\, seemingly unrelated objects are arranged singularly across the composition\, and the elements of story telling and implicit meaning usually associated with the genre have been removed.  Of particular note is Wonner’s use of pattern in the fabrics and tea towels he employs to create visual textures and provide structure for the other objects to be placed on. \n  \nOriginating in the mid-1970s\, Wonner’s still lifes afforded an important boost to his career at a time when the art world was returning to realism as an accepted and even lauded mode of painting.  With the help of Philip Guston\, the emergence of the “new realism” in the mid-1970s came at a time when the course of modern art had reached an apogee through minimalism and conceptualism\, leaving room for something as timeless as the realistic image to be considered “new” again. \n  \nBorn in Tucson\, Arizona\, Paul Wonner (1920-2008) first earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education from the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) in 1941\, and later studied at the Art Students League and Subjects of the Artist School in New York.  He then went on to earn both a BA (1952) and an MFA (1953) in Art from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a Master’s of Library Science from UC Berkeley in 1956. \n  \nWonner first became known as a painter for his role as a member of the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement during the 1950s and early 1960s\, which fought back against the dominance of Abstract Expressionism at that time.  His works were included in the seminal show Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting\, which was curated by Paul Mills at the Oakland Art Museum in 1957 and also included the works of David Park\, Elmer Bischoff\, Richard Diebenkorn\, William Theophilus Brown\, Bruce McGaw\, Joseph Brooks\, Robert Downs\, Robert Qualters\, Walter Snelgrove\, Henry Villierme\, and James Weeks.  The show later travelled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art\, Dayton Art Institute\, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. \n  \nIn 2023\, The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento\, CA organized Breaking the Rules: Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown\, the first full career retrospective for Wonner and his life partner William Theophilus Brown.  The exhibition later travelled to the Laguna Art Museum\, Laguna Beach\, CA and the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis\, TN. \n  \nOver the course of his career\, Paul Wonner taught art at colleges\, universities\, and art centers across California\, including University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA); Otis Art Institute (now Otis College of Art and Design); UC Santa Barabara; Art Center College of Design; California State University\, Long Beach; UC Davis; the Davis Art Center; and the Laguna Beach School of Art.  He also taught at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. \n  \nWonner also received awards and accolades throughout his life\, including the 1953 Anne Bremer Prize in Art from the California School of Fine Arts (later known as the San Francisco Art Institute); The 1954 Walter Haas Award for promising young artists from the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA); second prize at the Fifth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition from the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1955; prize at the 1958 Seventy-Seventh Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association; First place (later rescinded) at the 1960 Los Angeles All-City Art Festival; and the 2004 Elder Artist of the Year Award\, conferred by Eldgergivers of Napa County in collaboration with di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature\, Napa\, CA. \n  \nPaul Wonner’s works have been exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally\, and can be found in the numerous public and private collections\, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art\, NY; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Whitney Museum of American Art; National Gallery of Art\, Washington\, D.C.; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Smithsonian American Art Museum\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Orange County Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum; San Jose Museum of Art; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Arts Center\, Stanford University; Anderson Collection at Stanford University; and the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art\, Napa\, CA\, among many others. \n  \nAll sales of works from the Estate benefit The Paul Wonner and William Theophilus Brown Endowment Fund at the Crocker Art Museum\, which supports projects relating to emerging artists or lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, queer or questioning\, and intersex (LGBTQI+) artists.  Proceeds go to the acquisition\, care\, exhibition\, scholarship\, and publication of art by emerging and LGBTQI+ artists\, along with related public programs.
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