Gary Hugh Brown

Brown was born to Earl Hugh and Dorothy Aileen Brown in 1941, in Evansville, Indiana.^[3] While a student, Brown designed and painted sets for the Mesker Amphitheatre in Evansville.^[4]

In 1966, Brown received a Master of Fine Arts from University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.^[5]

Brown worked as an artist in Wisconsin, exhibiting his art at several galleries in the area. In that same year he accepted a position as assistant professor at UCSB.^[6] In September 1966, Brown had a one-person exhibition at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in Evansville, Indiana, where he was reviewed by The Courier-Journal.^[6] In February 1971, Brown's watercolors were displayed at the Plaza Gallery of Fine Arts in Oxnard, California. His work was influenced by his travels.^[7] Another exhibition in 1972, selected by Richard Ames, a critic for the Santa Barbara News-Press, was at the Gallery de Silva in Montecito Village. It included Landscape Reflection, a self-portrait of Brown done in 1971.^[8][9] Brown did the drawings of the Santa Cruz Mountain Poems, by poet and author Morton Marcus in November 1972.^[10][11]

Included in Anthology were Brown's drawings of the Devereaux Series sketchbooks and prints at the Art/Life Gallery.^[12]

In November 1991, Brown had a solo exhibition at the Allan Hancock College Art Gallery in Santa Maria, California.^[2]

His work was displayed at the Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science in 1966^[6] and in one man shows Folded Drawings, at the Fleischer-Anhalt gallery, Los Angeles in 1967.^[13]