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Byron Browne
(1907-1961)
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Clown with a Mask, 1951,
Oil on Canvas, 38"x30"
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Born in Yonkers, New York, he trained initially as an academic artist who won numerous awards at the National Academy at an early age, Browne decided in 1929 to paint abstractly. Perhaps his greatest influence was Picasso, but in general all the cubists influenced him to some degree. He joined with Balcomb Greene and his wife Rosalind Bengelsdorf to form American Abstract Artists in 1935.
In spite of Depression, and later WWII, Browne managed to survive and create interest in his work and by the late 1940’s was commanding good prices. My the mid 1950’s he felt abandoned by the new abstract artists and created more romantic imagery until his death in 1961. His decade memorial show was held at the Harmon Gallery.
Harmon-Meek Gallery has done twelve other shows, including a major retrospective with catalogue which was loaned to the Melvin Gallery at Florida Southern
College, in 2001.
Browne is represented in well over eighty major art museum permanent collections.
The Harmon-Meek Gallery has works on paper and oils on canvas in stock at all times.
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