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Jonathan Mayer Brown (July 15, 1939 – January 17, 2022) was an American art historian, known for his work on Spanish art, particularly Diego Velázquez. He was Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts at New York University.[1]

Jonathan Brown
Born(1939-07-15)July 15, 1939
Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedJanuary 17, 2022(2022-01-17) (aged 82)
Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationDartmouth College, Princeton University
Known forArt historian
AwardsAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences; American Philosophical Society; Guggenheim fellow; Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Slade Professor of Fine Arts, Oxford University; Gran Cruz, Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain); Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes (Spain); Catedratico, Museo Nacional del Prado (Spain)[citation needed]

Early life and education


Brown was born on July 15, 1939 in Springfield, Massachusetts to Leonard M. Brown, an insurance agent and Jean (Levy) Brown, a librarian.[2] He studied Spanish literature at Dartmouth College and spent a year abroad in Madrid.[3] While in Spain, he became fascinated with the painter Diego Velázquez, which inspired a lifelong interest in Spanish art.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth in 1960 and continued on to Princeton University, where he received his PhD in 1964 with a dissertation titled "Painting in Seville from Pacheco to Murillo: A Study of Artistic Transition."[4]


Academic career


Brown began his teaching career at Princeton in 1965. The same year, Brown was promoted to associate professor. In 1972, he received the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize of the College Art Association of America for an article the Art Bulletin[5] about works of art in the Church of the Hermandad de la Caridad in Seville.[6] The following year, Brown was appointed director of the Institute of Fine Arts (IFA), New York University's graduate program in art history. He was named full professor in 1977. At the IFA, Brown promoted the study of Spanish art, a relatively neglected field in the American academy.[1] During the last two decades of his career, he expanded his interests to viceregal Latin American art, particularly the painting of New Spain.[7]


Curation


Brown curated and co-curated a number of exhibitions throughout his career. While a faculty member at Princeton, he organized "Jusepe de Ribera: Prints and Drawings" at the university's museum, which featured several Spanish drawings from its collection.[8] He continued to organize shows focusing on Spanish drawings, including 1976's Murillo & His Drawings, also held at the Princeton University Art Museum,[3] and "The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya," held at The Frick Collection in 2010.[3] Brown had a long association with The Frick Collection, co-curating several shows at the institution, including Goya's Last Works in 2006.[3] In his review of the exhibition, Andrew Schulz commented that: "Brown and [his co-curator Susan Grace] Galassi did a marvelous job of assembling works from public and private collections in North America and Spain that covered the full range of [Goya’s] late production: portraits in oil, ivory miniatures, black crayon drawings, and lithographs." Schulz concludes: "Their landmark exhibition and catalogue will provide the point of departure as we continue to gain insights into the last works of this singular artist."[9] Reflecting his later interest in the art of the Spanish viceroyalties, Brown organized the 2010–2011 traveling exhibition "Pintura de los reinos. Identidades compartidas en el mundo hispánico" on view at the Museo Nacional del Prado and Palacio Real in Madrid and the Palacio de Iturrbide in Mexico City.[10] In 2013, he co-curated "La Mexique au Louvre: Chefs-d’œuvrede la Nouvelle Espagne" with Guillaume Kientz.[11]


Personal life and death


Brown died at his home in Princeton on January 17, 2022, at the age of 82.[2][12][13]


Awards and honors


Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University, 1981[14]

Comendador de la Orden de Isabel la Católica, 1986

Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes (Spain), 1986

American Philosophical Society, 1988[15]

Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994[16]

Gran Cruz, Order of Alfonso X el Sabio (Spain), 1996

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1996[17]

Premio Elio Antonio Negrija, University of Salamanca, 1997

College Art Association Distinguished Scholar, 2011[18]

Corresponding member, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando


Selected publications



References


  1. Sorensen, Lee (September 23, 2016). "Brown, Jonathan M[ayer]". Dictionary of Art Historians. Archived from the original (Wayback Machine) on September 23, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
  2. Cotter, Holland (February 6, 2022). "Jonathan Brown, 82, Dies: Noted Spanish Art Historian". New York Times. Vol. 171, no. 59326. p. 22. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
  3. Aton, Francesca (January 18, 2022), "Jonathan Brown, Art Historian Who Wrote Defining Books on Velázquez, Dies at 82", ArtNEWS, retrieved January 20, 2022
  4. Princeton University (2015). "Department of Art and Archaeology, Research, Dissertations Completed." Accessed January 13, 2015.
  5. "Awards for Distinction | Programs | College Art Association". www.collegeart.org. Retrieved April 27, 2022.
  6. Brown, Jonathan (September 1970). "Hieroglyphs of Death and Salvation: The Decoration of the Church of the Hermandad de la Caridad, Seville". Art Bulletin. 52 (3): 265–277. doi:10.1080/00043079.1970.10790893. ISSN 0004-3079.
  7. Brown, Jonathan (2014). In the Shadow of Velázquez: A Life in Art History (New Haven: Yale University Press).
  8. Jusepe de Ribera: prints and drawings; [catalogue of an exhibition The Art Museum, Princeton University, October–November 1973] in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
  9. Schulz, Andrew (2006). "Jonathan Brown and Susan Grace Galassi Goya's Last Works (Review)." caa.reviews (November 14, 2006). Accessed January 14, 2015.
  10. Rodríguez G. de Ceballos, Alfonso (2011). "Pintura de los reinos. Identidades compartidas en el mundo hispánico." Archivo español de arte LXXXIV, no. 333: 105-6.
  11. "Musée du Louvre - catalogue des éditions 2014". Musée du Louvre. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  12. "Muere el hispanista Jonathan Brown, gran experto en Velázquez". ABC.es. January 18, 2022. Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  13. Kagan, Richard; Lubar, Robert; Sullivan, Edward. "Jonathan Brown: A Life". Retrieved January 18, 2022.
  14. "The History of the Slade Professors". www.hoa.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  15. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
  16. "A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts". www.nga.gov. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  17. "Jonathan Brown". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved April 28, 2022.
  18. "Annual Conference | Programs | CAA". www.collegeart.org. Retrieved May 12, 2022.
  19. Brown, Jonathan; Galassi, Susan Grace (2001). El Greco. Themes & Variations: Exhibition , The Frick Collection May 15 - July 29, 2001. Frick Collection. Retrieved January 24, 2022.


Oral history interview at the Institute of Fine Arts, conducted by Elizabeth Buhe in 2014.


На других языках


- [en] Jonathan Brown (art historian)

[fr] Jonathan Brown (historien de l'art)

Jonathan Brown, né le 15 juillet 1939 à Springfield (Massachusetts) et mort le 18 janvier 2022[1], est un hispaniste américain, installé depuis plusieurs années en Espagne. Il est présenté comme le plus grand spécialiste contemporain de la vie et de l'œuvre de Diego Velázquez[2].

[ru] Браун, Джонатан (искусствовед)

Джонатан Майер Браун (англ. Jonathan Mayer Brown; 15 июля 1939, Спрингфилд, Массачусетс, США — 17 января 2022, Принстон, Нью-Джерси, США) — американский искусствовед и историк искусства, профессор, специалист по истории испанского искусства, автор ряда книг и статей, посвящённых жизни и творчеству Диего Веласкеса и других художников Испании[1][2].



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