WILLIAM THEOPHILUS BROWN
Born 1919 Moline, IL
Died 2012 San Francisco, CA
Education
1941 BA, Yale University
1953 MFA, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching
1957–1958, 1975–1976 Lecturer, University of California, Davis
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Theophilus Brown at 90: Recent Abstract Collages, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Theophilus Brown, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 William Theophlius Brown, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 End of Summer Deaccession Sale, Elins Eagles-Smith Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Abstract and Figurative: Highlights of Bay Area Painting, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 A Modern Day Drawings Cabinet: Bay Area Figurative Works, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2006 Bay Area Figurative 1950s and 1960s, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
2003 Bay Area Artists, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 A Legacy for Learning, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1999 Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1961 First Solo Exhibition in New York, Barone Gallery, New York, NY
1958 First Solo Exhibition, Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Capital Records, Los Angeles, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Commerce Trust Company, Kansas City, KS
Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA
di Rosa Center for Contemporart Art, Napa, CA
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Readers Digest Association, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
University of Kansas Art Museum, Lawrence, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY