MUSEUM EXHIBITION | Universal Heart Chords: Music Paintings of Frederick J. Brown at the New Orleans Jazz Museum
October 12, 2022 - New Orleans Jazz Museum, Louisiana
UNIVERSAL HEART CHORDS: MUSIC PAINTINGS OF FREDERICK BROWN
The New Orleans Jazz Museum debuted Universal Heart Chords: The Music Paintings of Frederick Brown on October 6, 2022. The exhibit features a selection of Brown’s extensive series of over 350 musician portraits, with subjects including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, Wynton Marsalis, Bix Beiderbeicke, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Patton, and Ray Charles. Brown’s large and detailed paintings mix the abstract and the figurative to give insight into the lives of his subjects, reflecting the artist’s close relationship with the musicians he portrayed.
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