Artist Info
Frederick James Brown
"for Brown these clown paintings emerge primarily from
another intensely private and personal experience. Brown says
that these clown paintings ... arose not from a calculated art historical decision, but from
the experience he had while visiting his daughter when she was in
the hospital in New York. He was struck with the drabness of the
institutional decor and the result was a series of clown paintings
that, despite their haunting appearance, were intended to make his
daughter smile. "I just tried to think about what would make sick
children laugh.' "
https://stories.ulethbridge.ca/art-gallery-frederick-j-brown/
