Roger Brown’s Letters Home, 1960-1976
Posted in Blogging the Archive on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Written by Laura Bickford I spent the Fall semester of 2012 reading, sorting, and organizing a collection of photocopied letters that Roger Brown wrote home to his parents from 1960-1976. These were formative years for Brown, documenting his decision to leave the South and become an artist, his first impressions of Chicago, art school, [...]
2012: year in review
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Greetings. The RBSC is in its fifteenth year of serving SAIC as a house museum encompassing the intimate nature of “home,” among many other things. 2012 is also the fifteenth anniversary of Brown’s passing from this world into the next, and from full time artist in his lifetime, to full time teacher posthumously, through his [...]
Deinstalling and Reinstalling Roger Brown’s New Buffalo Collection
Posted in Happening Now at the RBSC on Thursday, December 8th, 2011
This past summer I assisted RBSC staff members Lisa Stone and Nick Lowe along with art conservator Tim Fox and his team of art handlers, Kelly Stachura and Daniel Baird, in deinstalling and then reinstalling Roger Brown’s collection at his New Buffalo, Michigan residency for the interior to be worked on. The entire process, partially [...]
Remembering Roger Brown
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
Roger Brown, December 10, 1941 – November 22, 1997 Roger Brown’s magnanimous gifts continue to enrich SAIC in uncountable ways, and there are always new discoveries. We recently unpacked (from storage) eight carved and silver-painted panels of draped fabric with billowing folds. In a 1995 video we see them installed them in Roger’s studio and he explains that these [...]
Installing the Barcelona Table
Posted in STAFF PICS on Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
I’ve often started tours of the RBSC by gathering a group around the Barcelona table in the living room, using it to introduce the logic behind the formation of Roger Brown’s collection. Located centrally in the living room of Roger Brown’s former Chicago home, the Barcelona Table and the objects on it reveal the convergence [...]
The SUPER DIMENSION LIVING NATURAL COLOR 3·D COLLECTOR POSTCARD
Posted in STAFF PICS on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
The SUPER DIMENSION LIVING NATURAL COLOR 3·D COLLECTOR POSTCARD of a stoic Jesus Christ watching over cars on a highway caught my eye on my first visit to the Roger Brown Study Collection in 2004. Installed near Brown’s kitchen sink in what seems to be a Christian-ephemera-themed corner, the object is placed in close proximity [...]
All The (Recent) News
Posted in ALL THE NEWS on Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Our complete fall update can be downloaded here. The building renovation projects begun last spring were completed by mid summer. With the new roof in place, the dark cloud of concern that hovered over staff with each storm since 1997 has vanished. The building feels sturdier after re-pointing and parapet repair. In its newly refreshed [...]
