Archival work has continued but at a much slower pace. Most of my time the past three months has been consumed trying to meet a publisher’s deadline. I have now submitted the manuscript, but I now have to focus my energies on preparing for the three classes I will have to teach in January. I will devote what time I have left over to building the archive, but no major additions can be expected until spring.
My research on his CD collection of photographs of his works in progress has allowed me to revise my cataloguing of the Grimm series. I have photographic records of 72 of the 97 Grimms. I have photographs of 18 other paintings that are almost certainly Grimms but which lack definitive numbering and dating. Assuming that I am correct and they are all Grimms, the catalogue now contains 90 of the 97 paintings. However, I also discovered that some of the numbers changed between their execution and their showing. This discovery lends support to my concern that Brown painted over some of the missing Grimms, making it most likely that the record is as complete as it is going to get.
I have also begun work on the second in the series of five planned essays on the development of Brown’s work. With any luck, I should finish before the new year.