Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Roger Brown
August 12, 1987 – October 18, 1987
This retrospective of approximately 50 paintings and 4 painted constructions—from the late 1960s to the present—reviews the achievements of this Chicago "imagist." Brown's work combines a simplified, almost cartoonlike style with subjects inspired by the contemporary world: skyscrapers and street scenes people with mysterious, 1940s-looking city dwellers; tourists amid spectacular skies and landscapes; natural and man-made disasters; bibilical themes; and horrific news events, such as terrorism and mass murder.
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