Byron Browne

Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection

Byron Browne is considered among the leaders of the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s alongside Ilya Bolotowsky, Arshile Gorky, and Willem de Kooning. Although his work is stylistically abstract, his imagery and references are taken from everyday life, nature, and art history.

In fact, Browne was first trained in a classical academic style; he once remarked, “There cannot be a new art without a solid basis in the understanding of past art.” In the 1930s, Browne’s painting reflected a strong European modernist influence, with particular affinities to the work of Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, and Joan Miró. The painter was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, a group dedicated to the public promotion of abstract art.

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Byron Browne: Recent Additions to the Permanent Collection

December 6, 2024 – January 12, 2025

Museum of Art – DeLand

600 N. Woodland Blvd. DeLand, Florida 32720

Admission: Members Free  |  Future Members $5

Image: Byron Browne, Winged Bull, 1956, Casein, Tempera on Paper, 20 X 26 in.