Over the past month I have continued my research on Brown’s slides and CDs. I have discovered what I am certain are 8 of the Grimm paintings for which I had previously lacked images. Unfortunately, Brown was more meticulous about creating photographic records of his paintings than he was about labelling the slides and naming the photos on the CDs. I am not able to determine which of the missing Grimm’s the slides depict, but there is no doubt (or almost no doubt) that the newly added photos represent Grimm paintings. Given the fact that precise titling and dating is not possible at this point I have included them in the subsection of Suspected Grimms that follows the section of known and dated Grimms.
I have also added previously uncatalogued drawings (discovered on the slides) and, thanks to Brown’s brother Joe, two uncatalogued paintings from the transitional, mid-1980’s period of Browns career, a number of new paintings from his student days at OCA, and, most excitingly, the only known landscape that Brown painted, from 1983.
I have not been able to devote as much time to completing the research because I have been busy trying to finish some philosophical work. September is always a busy month for academics, and there are still dozens of slides and CDs to examine. I hope that September will yield images of the still 12 missing Grimm’s and more early career drawings. Nevertheless, while there remain some Grimm’s, Ping’s and 4 Mouth series paintings for which I lack images, I am confident that the catalogue now includes all Brown’s major paintings and works on paper. I want to catalogue to be complete and exhaustive so I will continue to hunt for images of those works, but I am confident that nothing essential is missing at this point.