Joan Brown
American, 1938-1990
Bob the Dog
INV-2142
Joan Brown
American, 1938-19901964
Bob the Dog
Joan Brown American, 1938-1990 →drawings (visual works)prints and drawing
Date
1964
Medium
Collage composed of gouache and graphite on cut and torn cream and ivory wove papers
Dimensions
69.9 × 129 cm (27 9/16 × 50 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Adele and Willard Gidwitz Endowment
Noted for her dedication to the figure, and her immediacy of touch, Joan Brown was among the youngest artists associated with the so-called Bay Area Figurative Painters. Influenced by the presence of animals in Old Master paintings by Velázquez and Rembrandt, Brown often included her family pets in compositions such as this one. Bob, a bull terrier, was the family dog, and was particularly devoted to Brown. Her son Noel once remarked that “Bob was so vain, he probably knew when he was being drawn or painted. We used to refer to him as ‘Bob the tax-deductible dog.’ ”
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