With the help of my friend and Windsor photographer Doug MacLellan I have begun the process of transferring some as yet catalogued images from slides to .jpgs. I have also begun systematically working through the dozens of CD’s on which Jack stored images of his work, both finished pieces and in the process of development. The research on the slides and CDs has paid off: I have discovered 2 uncatalogued Grimm’s, several more likely Grimm’s, about a dozen drawings that I had not yet catalogued, numerous student paintings, as well as colour photos of paintings for which I had originally only had a black and white. All the new material has been posted on the appropriate pages. I have also posted part one of an essay by Marc De Guerre, currently a documentary film maker and a long time friend and collaborator of Brown’s The first part of the essay focuses on their time together at OCA. The second part will focus on their emergence into the professional art world in the stable of young artists assembled by Carmen Lamanna in the early 1980s.
June Update
I began working through the dozens of CD’s containing photographs that Brown took of his work. The excavation has proven fruitful. I have discovered 5 images of paintings that I had not seen before but from their appearance and context would seem to be 5 of the missing Grimm series. The pictures were on a CD with other late Grimm paintings. They were not titled, but the other paintings on the CD have been catalogued in the Grimm series. I cannot be certain, and have posted them with the other possible but not proven Grimms. The discovery gives me confidence that there are more to be found on the CDs, the hard drives, and the slides which I have not yet but will soon study.
The pictures of those five paintings were the only addition to the catalogue this month. I discovered two more reviews of Brown’s work, which I have posted on the reviews page, and added the first of my five (planned) critical essays on Brown’s work. The essay focuses of the influence of the Sudbury landscape on his early drawings. Critical feedback on the argument is always welcome.