In the 1960s, Dalton Brown balanced family life and artmaking focused on images of interiors, figures and rural structures after a move to upstate New York. She and her family relocated to Greenwich Village, Manhattan in 1970, where she encountered in close proximity an art scene expanding from Abstract Expressionism into minimalism, conceptualism and various modes of realism. [5] [16] In 1975, she began exhibiting her paintings and collages of pastoral scenes. [14] [16] After turning to houses as subject matter, she attracted greater notice in the 1980s through solo shows at the A.M. Sachs [1] [18] and Katharina Rich Perlow [19] galleries in New York and group exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, Columbus Museum of Art and Minnesota Museum of American Art. [14] [2] Dalton Brown has exhibited at institutions including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, [8] Butler Institute of American Art, [9] Bronx Museum of the Arts, Albright-Knox Museum, and McNay Art Museum. [2] She has been recognized by the American Academy in Rome and her work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [10] Johnson Museum, [11] Minneapolis Institute of Art, [12] and Tampa Museum of Art, among others. [2] After being based in New York City for over three decades, Dalton Brown splits time between Peekskill, New York and the state's Finger Lakes region, at Cayuga Lake. [13] Early life and career [ edit ] a b c d Goldsmith, Margie and Richard Mathews. "Making Miracles of Light and Shadow: An Interview with Alice Dalton Brown," Tampa Review No. 40, 2010, p. 15–17. Alice Dalton Brown is one of The Fine Art Company'sbest-loved artists. Our Alice Dalton Brown art prints and posters create a real focal point with their scale and almost photographic detail.Her breezy, seductive paintings of sun-drenched verandas and billowing curtains are ideal for adding a touch of tranquility and warmth to yourroom. Working primarily in oil and pastel on paper, she paints large canvases and so our prints on high quality art paper reflect this, in particular the striking 'The Blues Come Through' and 'After His Appearance' art prints which measure an impressive 100 x 152cm and 137 x 100cm respectively.Here sunlight spills through open windows and a warm breezy causes the semi-transparent curtains to billow. In the distance you can see a calm blue ocean. Light and space are key themes in Alice Dalton Brown's paintings and they can brighten even the darkest room in a home or office. In her later career, Dalton Brown has had solo shows at Fischbach Gallery in New York (1987–2014), [20] [7] [21] [3] and Butler Institute of American Art (2018, 2019), [9] and retrospectives at the Springfield Art Museum (1999), [22] Johnson Museum of Art (2013), [23] and My Art Museum (2021, Seoul). [24] [25] Work and reception [ edit ] Alice Dalton Brown, Blues Come Through, oil on linen, 54" x 86", 1999.

Dalton Brown's work synthesizes various realist tendencies in a manner that evades easy placement within typical modes of contemporary realism or photorealism. [8] [7] [2] For example, despite using reference photographs, she does not imitate their optical qualities, nor does she derive compositions directly from them, but rather, reconstructs, edits and collages reality freely to suit her purposes. [8] [26] [21] Similarly, her painterly treatments of foliage, water and floorboards, eccentric compositional rhythms and perspectives, and level of psychological and emotional content introduce expressionist qualities at odds with more conventional realism. [8] [27] [2] Art historian April Kingsley compares Dalton Brown's approach to those of Richard Estes and Edward Hopper, deeming her a "subjective realist." [2] In addition to Hopper's influence, writers have cited Post-Impressionists such as Gaugin, Bonnard, Vuillard and van Gogh, the Dutch Old Masters, the 19th-century American sublime tradition, the American Precisionists, and Josef Albers (for his theories of color structure), as significant to her work. [2] [28] [6] a b c d Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary, New York: Taylor & Francis, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2023. a b c d Carey, Brainard. "Points of Light," Praxis Center for Aesthetics, September 6, 2018. Retrieved January 10, 2023. Cooper, James. "Beautiful Flame Burns Under Brown’s Victorian Facade," New York Tribune, March 6, 1987. a b c d Grosz, David. "Alice Dalton Brown: Barns 1965–1976," The New York Sun, September 21, 2006, p .19.a b c Butler Institute of American Art. Alice Dalton Brown: Pastels, Portfolio. Retrieved January 10, 2023. a b Minneapolis Institute of Art. A Sheltered Spot, Alice Dalton Brown, Collections. Retrieved January 10, 2023.

a b c d Ainsworth, Maryan. "The Illusion of Reality in Alice Dalton Brown's Paintings," Alice Dalton Brown: The Language of Angels, New York: Fischbach Gallery, 2014. a b The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Small Golden Corner, Alice Dalton Brown, Art Collection. Retrieved January 10, 2023. Dalton Brown was born in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1939 and grew up in Ithaca, New York. [14] Her memories of the light, shadows and homes during her youth in the area would serve as later inspirations for her art. [15] After high school, Dalton Brown studied art at the Académie Julian and the L'Université de Grenoble in France before majoring in English at Cornell University. [14] [16] After transferring to Oberlin College, she earned a BA in studio art in 1962, working in a realist vein at odds with the day's dominant abstract modes. She was greatly influenced at Oberlin by art historian Wolfgang Stechow and his discussions of compositional dynamics and iconography. [17] [16] Her light-filled interiors and fresh landscapes contain strong graphic compositions, which divide space with broad planes of color, to which she adds her distinct Realist detail to highlight the subject matter. She completes her major paintings in her New York studio, working from her en plein air studies and collaged photographs. Dalton Brown is able to portray an acute sense of time and place in her work by her masterful rendering of light and shadow.Wiles, Stephanie. Summer Breeze: Paintings & Drawings by Alice Dalton Brown, Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, NY2013. a b c d Lee, Jangro. "Alice Dalton Brown Where the light Breathes," Weverse Magazine, September 24, 2021. Retrieved January 10, 2023.