Glenn Brown: Come to Dust Tim Marlow and artillery shells

and artillery shells

A series of detailed photographs documents the development of each monumental canvas

he sought to indicate narrative truth through the depiction of elementary relationships between people and things

which was presented in 1970 at the Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum) in California

Glenn Brown: Come to Dust Tim Marlow and artillery shellsThis book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Glenn Brown: Come to Dust at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. It features sixty oil paintings, drawings in period frames, grisaille panel works, etchings, and sculptures that attest to the ever intensifying dexterity with which Brown employs paint, content, and form. The works teem with contrasts and contradictions, collapsing time and allowing different, often opposing references to exist