Judith Brown (American, 1931-2002), Seated Figure No. 1

Painted metal, mounted upon a ebonized laminated wood base, ink signed to the underside.

11 1/2 x 9 x 8 1/2 in.

Manhattan based artist, Judith Brown, was a dancer and a sculptor who was drawn to images of the body in motion and its effect on the cloth surrounding it. She welded crushed automobile scrap metal into energetic moving torsos, horses, and flying draperies. Brown attended Sarah Lawrence College of New York (B.A., 1954) where she learned to weld from her teacher, Theodore Roszak, a pioneering abstract expressionist sculptor.
Judith completed many commissioned works throughourt her career, including store windows for Tiffany & Co. Her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including 1986: The Women's Museum, Washington, D.C. (Sculpture acquired for permanent collection); 1987: Tiffany's Windows, Tiffany and Co., NYC; 1988: One Man Show: Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont; 1989: One man show: National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, New York; Group Show: 4th International Contemporary Art Fair, London, England; Tiffany's Windows, Tiffany and Co., NYC; 1990: National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dust soiling to crevices and some small areas of paint loss.