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Title:The Modern Story of Life: A Civics Diatribe
Artist:Roger Brown (American, Hamilton, Alabama 1941–1997 Atlanta, Georgia)
Date:1982
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:72 1/4 × 96 in. (183.5 × 243.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1983
Accession Number:1983.87
the artist, Chicago (1982–83; sold through the Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York to MMA)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Ten New Narrative Paintings," September 15–November 30, 1983, no catalogue.
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. "New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," February 9–26, 1984, no. 9.
Mexico City. Museo Rufino Tamayo. "Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York," November–December 1984, no. 8.
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art. "39th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," February 2–April 7, 1985, no. 16.
Phoenix Museum of Art. "New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 14–April 27, 1986, unnum. brochure.
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. "Roger Brown," February 11–March 27, 1988, no. 38.
Des Moines Art Center. "Roger Brown," April 28–June 12, 1988, no. 38.
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. "Made in America," April 5–June 11, 1989, unnumbered cat. (p. 27; as "The Modern Story of Life: A Civic's Diatribe").
Milwaukee Art Museum. "Word as Image: American Art 1960–1990," June 15–August 26, 1990, no. 22.
Oklahoma City Art Museum. "Word as Image: American Art 1960–1990," November 17, 1990–February 2, 1991, no. 22.
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. "Word as Image: American Art 1960–1990," February 23–May 12, 1991, no. 22.
Roslyn Harbor, N. Y. Nassau County Museum of Art. "American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: The 1980's from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 4–November 3, 1991, unnumbered cat. (p. 16).
Lisa M. Messinger. "Twentieth Century Art." The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1982–1983. New York, 1983, p. 64, ill.
Grace Glueck. "The Met Makes Room for the 20th Century." New York Times (September 18, 1983), p. H30, ill. p. H27.
Lisa M. Messinger in William S. Lieberman. Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York. Exh. cat., Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City, 1984, pp. 16, 42, ill.
Lisa Mintz Messinger inNew Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale . Fort Lauderdale, 1984, unpaginated, no. 9, ill. (overall and detail).
Lisa Lyons. The 39th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1985, pp. 18, 67, no. 16.
Francesca Lyman. "The Right's Artful Roger." Mother Jones 10 (July 1985), p. 14, ill. (color).
Maria Vesperi. "Commentary: Art and Politics Don't Mix Well in America." St. Petersburg Times (June 30, 1985), p. 5D, ill.
Edward J. Sozanski. "From the Art Land of the Heartland." Philadelphia Inquirer (February 28, 1985), p. 4-E.
Anne Stephenson. "Exhibit Captures Narrative Tradition." Arizona Republic (March 21, 1986), p. F5.
Bruce D. Kurtz. New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, Phoenix Art Museum. Phoenix, 1986, unpaginated, ill.
Robert S. Cauthorn. "Canvas Sirens: Alarming Show from New York is on View in Phoenix." Arizona Daily Star (April 6, 1986), p. E1.
Sidney Lawrence. Roger Brown. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. New York, 1987, pp. 11–12, 85, no. 38, ill.
Anna Brooke in Sidney Lawrence. Roger Brown. Exh. cat., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. New York, 1987, p. 111.
Robert L. Pincus. "Roger Brown Poses a Paradox by Mixing Charm, Stark Topics." San Diego Union (November 29, 1987), p. E1.
Ken Johnson. "Other Vision: The Art of Roger Brown." Arts Magazine 62 (December 1987), p. 63.
Timothy W. Luke. "Roger Brown: Tracing the Silhouettes from the Shadow of the Silent Majorities." Art Papers 12 (March/April 1988), p. 32.
Norman F. Cantor and Mindy Cantor. Twentieth-century Culture: Modernism to Deconstruction. New York, 1988, p. xx, ill. between pp. 390 and 381.
Lowery S. Sims inMade in America. Exh. cat., Virginia Beach Center for the Arts. Virginia Beach, 1989, pp. 13, 33, ill. p. 27, calls it "The Modern Story of Life: A Civic's Diatribe" in the checklist.
Helen A. Harrison. "The Rothko Legacy, Plus Some Works That Relate Stories." New York Times (September 29, 1991), p. LI12, ill.
"Or Better Yet, Words Worth a Thousand Pictures." Sunday Oklahoman (January 6, 1991), p. 6.
Timothy W. Luke. Shows of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions. New York, 1992, pp. 195–96.
Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887–1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico)
1926
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