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Don Brown

Don D. Brown (Born 1947) is active/lives in Florida.  Don Brown is known for Florida landscape painting.

Don Brown was a member of the Indian River School of Painting, which was not a formal school but was a group which began with mostly African-American Florida working class people who wanted to paint. Following is the explanation of that school and its participants.

Indian River School is a name applied to Floridian artists in the 1950's and 1960's. They were heavily influenced by nature. Most of the artists in this movement were African American. Their work is characterized by quick strokes and eschews traditional methods of paintings. The main influence for the group was a man named A.E. Backus, a Bohemian white man who mentored the group of young black artists. The group used to congregate in his studio and learnt to paint from 'Beanie' (as he was called) as a way out of their lower class labour jobs.

Their work was powerful, dramatic yet captured the serenity and beauty of the Florida countryside. No one knows how many artists A.E. Backus men   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2438 characters.]  Artist bio

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