a b c d e Shin, Miri , Bora Kim and James Mullen. Alice Dalton Brown: Where the Light Breathes, Seoul: My Art Museum, 2021. 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. A contemporary realist using the medium of oil on canvas or pastel on paper, Dalton Brown achieves beautifully detailed scenes of airy domestic views, breezy porch settings and dappled seascapes to inspire a romantic, meditative mood.

As a contemporary photorealist using the difficult medium of watercolor, Dalton Brown achieves beautifully detailed scenes of airy domestic views, breezy porch settings and dappled seascapes which inspire a romantic, meditative mood. 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 photorealist detail to highlight the subject matter. 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] 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 ]

As a contemporary Realist using the medium of either oil on canvas or pastel on paper, Dalton Brown achieves beautifully detailed scenes of airy domestic views, breezy porch settings and dappled seascapes which inspire a romantic, meditative mood. 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. a b c d Howard, Henrietta. "Private Views: Inside and Outside," House & Garden (UK ed.), January 1991, p. 88–89.

a b c d e Howell, Camille. "Light, life spill from Brown's artwork," The Springfield News-Leader, October 29, 1999. a b My Art Museum. "Alice Dalton Brown, Where the Light Breathes," Exhibits. Retrieved January 11, 2023. 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.Alice Dalton Brown (born 1939) is an American painter known for realist works that capture the light and texture of specific, if often invented, places and moments. [1] [2] [3] Her signature motifs include exteriors of Victorian houses, barns and waterscapes viewed through windows or sheer curtains, by which she explores the play of light, shadow, reflection and geometry across various surfaces. [4] [5] [6] Critic J. Bowyer Bell wrote of Dalton Brown's style, "her realist works are more than the sum of their parts. In fact, there are so many parts so cunningly included, so many skills on display, that the result is almost an encyclopedia of what can be done." [7] a b c d Bell, J. Bowyer. "Alice Dalton Brown at Fischbach Gallery," Review, April 15, 1995, p. 35–36. Alice was born in Pennsylvania in 1939 and grew up in New York. She studied art in Paris, Grenoble and America. Dalton Brown has exhibited her oil paintings all over the world and they form part of both corporate and private collections in America, Europeand beyond. 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.