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Alice Dalton Brown (born 1939, Danville, Pennsylvania) is an American realist painter who grew up in Ithaca, New York. Dalton Brown began her studies in France at the Académie Julian in Paris and at the L'Université de Grenoble. She entered Cornell University as an English major and later transferred to Oberlin College, where she received her BA in studio art in 1962. While at Oberlin, she studied art history with Wolfgang Stechow. From 1970 to 2005, she lived and worked in New York City. Dalton Brown currently lives in the Hudson Valley and in King Ferry, New York.

While living in rural upstate New York and after moving to New York City, Dalton Brown painted and drew barns from 1965 to 1977. A 2006 review of her solo retrospective of works on paper described these as offering "a moving, somewhat cinematic perspective on the power and vagaries of memory ." Becoming increasingly abstract, the barn imagery evolved into paintings like the 1977 Shadow of Tree and Table.

Dalton Brown is most interested in the evocative qualities of a subject and its personal associations as seen in paintings like Grand Westfield Porch, 1980 and My Westfield Window, 1980, and the pastels Retreat Grasses, 1990, and Aurora, Six Columns, 1991. Expressing mood, attitude, and ideas are key to understanding the meaning of her work: "The visual tension between controlled, linear, constructed elements and textured, disordered, active areas has always intrigued me. I still like to compose my images with these contrasts which I think have symbolic implications as well as the visual interest and compositional strength."

Among her best known works are paintings and pastels of light and water often executed on a very large scale. Dalton Brown’s ability to capture light playing across a wall, on the surface of water, or passing through translucent drapery is a signature motif Her "eye for the supernal in the everyday" is displayed in Whisper (2001) and Blues Come Through (1999). Framing devices are removed and location becomes ambiguous in paintings like A Long Golden Day (2000) and Great Day Dream (2014).

Recent paintings and pastels revisit themes inspired by Dalton Brown's 2015 visiting artist residency grant at the American Academy in Rome. These extend the ideas begun in the 1990s in Italy in works such as Tuscan Patio, 1994.

Education

 * 1957 L'Académie Julian, Paris
 * 1957 L'Université de Grenoble, France
 * 1958 Cornell University
 * 1962 BA, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

One person exhibitions

 * 2014: Language of Angels, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2013: Summer Breeze, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
 * 2012: Old New Borrowed Blue, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2010: Nocturnes and Diurnes, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2008: Friends Forever, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2007: Selection 1965-2007, General Electric Company, Fairfield, Connecticut
 * 2006: Barns 1965–1976, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2004: Celebration: A Survey 1976-22004, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2002: A Clear Light, Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 2000: Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 1999: Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
 * 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998: Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 1988: William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco
 * 1987: Fischbach Gallery, New York
 * 1985: Katharine Rich Perlow Gallery, New York
 * 1982, 1983, 1984: A. M. Sachs Gallery, New York
 * 1979: New York State Council on the Arts Award Exhibition
 * 1978: Private exhibition, Holmbush Road, London
 * 1976: Bartlett Gallery, New York
 * 1975: Mari Gallery, Mamaroneck, New York

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2011: The Value of Water, The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, New York
 * 2007: Image and Word, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Museum of Art, Lafayette, Louisiana
 * 2006: Photorealist Paintings from the Sydney and Waldo Bestoff Collection, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Museum of Art, Lafayette, Louisiana
 * 2001-02: Re-Presenting Representation V, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, and Rockwell Museum of Western Art, Corning, New York
 * 2001: Reflections, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
 * 1997: Realism in 20th-Century American Painting, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine
 * 1996-97: Art and the Law, Indiana Convention Center, Indianapolis; Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress, Orlando, Florida; Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan; Alexander Houge Gallery, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH


 * 1990: Collector's Gallery XXIII, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
 * 1987: In the Country, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
 * 1986: Members Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
 * 1985: Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ohio
 * 1982: Views by Women Artists, Women's Caucus for Art, New York Chapter, New York
 * 1982: Architectural Images, Summit Art Center, Summit, New Jersey
 * 1981: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
 * 1978: New York State Council on the Arts regional exhibition, Cayuga County, New York
 * 1977: New York State Council on the Arts regional exhibition, Cayuga County, New York
 * 1976: Providence Print Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island

Museum collections

 * Allen Memorial Art Museum
 * Asheville Museum of Art
 * Frost Art Museum, Florida International University
 * Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca, New York
 * Maier Museum of Art
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
 * Minneapolis Institute of Art
 * Nassau County Museum of Art
 * Newark Public Library
 * New York Public Library
 * Springfield Art Museum
 * Tampa Museum
 * Telfair Museum of Art

Articles

 * "Alice Dalton Brown," American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2004, Volume 21, Number 2): 60, cover;
 * Bell, J. Bowyer, "Review: The Critical State of Visual Art," New York 3:14 (April 15, 1995): 35-36;
 * Brenson, Michael. "Review/Museums," New York Times (May 5, 1989): C28;
 * "Brown At William Sawyer Gallery" The New Fillmore (June 1988, 3:2);
 * Cristiano, Joshua. "Review: Barns 1965–1976," ARTnews (December 2006), 152;
 * Cooper, James F. "Alice Dalton Brown," New York Tribune (May 13, 1983); 6B;
 * Cooper, James F. "Beautiful Flame Burns Under Brown's Victorian Facade," New York Tribune (March 6, 1987);
 * Cooper, James F. "Enchanted Santuary: Alice Dalton Brown," American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2000): 3-7;
 * Cooper, James F. "New Exhibit at Sachs shows Alice Dalton Brown," New York Tribune (June 29, 1984);
 * Diggory, Anne. "Layers of Clarity and Ambiguity," American Artist (October 2001): 40-47; Disch,

Exhibition catalogues and books
Kingsley, April, The Paintings of Alice Dalton Brown, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 2002.