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Realist artist Colleen
Browning found inspiration for her paintings in her everyday
world and in her travels to exotic locations. The circus town of
Baraboo, Wisconsin, inspired one of her most impressive series of
paintings, which features the circus, pageants, clowns, and
marching bands. Picture of a Painting of the Great Circus
Parade, 1988, is a study of illusion, fragmented
and combined mirrors of reality.
Of Celtic ancestry,
Browning was born in County Cork, Ireland. She received her early
artistic training at a provincial art school in southern England,
where her accomplishments led to a scholarship at London's Slade
School of Art. Her first solo exhibition was held at London's
Little Gallery when Browning was 20 years old. From her
immigration
to the United States in 1949, she exhibited her work in the
Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, the Carnegie
International, at Chicago's Art Institute, the American Academy
and Institute of Arts and Letters, and the National Academy of
Design in New York City. As one of America's most accomplished
realists, Browning was a leader in the realist revival of the
1990s.
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