Johnny Hodges

Frederick Brown

About The Johnny Hodges

One of six prints Brown created "Jazz Musicians"

About Frederick Brown

(1945-2012, American) "Born in Georgia and raised in Chicago's South Side, Frederick J. Brown settled in a loft in Soho during the New York Art Renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s. There, he collaborated with jazz musicians like Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton, and abstract expressionist painter Willem De Kooning among others. The 2002 documentary film 120 Wooster Street depicts Frederick Brown’s loft studio, which grew to be a central gathering place for artists, musicians, writers, dancers and performance artists. Eventually, Brown settled in Arizona, and continued to paint in New York and Scottsdale.

Brown’s work is in public and private art collections throughout the world, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the American Jazz Museum. Brown’s one-man exhibitions include the Studio Museum of Harlem, Marlborough Gallery and a twenty-year retrospective held at the National Museum of China in Beijing in 1988, one of the first solo exhibitions by a western artist in China.

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Cultures

African & African American, American Indian

Medium

Prints

Subject

Music

Keywords

Frederick Brown, Frederick J. Brown, Johnny Hodges, jazz musician