Stephen Brown was born in Greely, Colorado in 1950. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Colorado State Univeristy in 1972, he attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Paining in Maine. There he met and studied with the figurative painter Alice Neel, a longtime colleague and influence of Brown. In 1980 Brown received a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where he studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson and Lois Dodd. Brown's work has been
exhibited in galleries and museums around the country, including the National Academy Museum, New York; the Brattleboro Museum of Contemporary Art, Vermont; the Long Beach Museum of Art; Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, New York; Forum Gallery, New York; the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit; The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; the Albany Museum of Art, Georgia; and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, among others. His work is in the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of Art; the National Academy of Design, New York; the Springfield Museum of Art; the Albany Museum of Art, Georgia; the Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury; and the Hofstra Museum, Hempstead. Brown passed away in 2009.
