Vice Provost for the Arts John Brown will step down on June 30 to return to the Duke faculty and focus on arts practice, ...

Did genre painting exist in the early twentieth century? This question forms the premise of John Fagg’s Re-envisioning the Everyday: American Genre Scenes, 1905–1945.

“..Arnesby Brown was knighted in 1938 and died in 1955, not having painted since 1942 due to blindness... ” ...

John George Brown, born in 1831 in Durham, England, was an American artist known for his genre scenes depicting street urchins in New York. He studied at the School of Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne and ...