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Roger Brown’s Mystical Atmospheric Perspective

Roger Brown, large-scale painting with silhouetted figures against a patterned sky, flat graphic value shapes in deep earth tones
Roger Brown, large-scale painting with silhouetted figures against a patterned sky, flat graphic value shapes in deep earth tones with atmospheric light effects
Roger Brown, gallery installation view showing multiple paintings with repeated silhouetted landscape forms and atmospheric value layers
Roger Brown, wide horizontal painting with silhouetted cityscape or landscape in flat tonal bands, light and dark shapes alternating across the picture plane
Roger Brown, square-format painting with silhouetted figures and landscape forms arranged in flat horizontal registers
Roger Brown, square-format painting with patterned landscape and silhouetted trees in dark foreground against glowing atmospheric sky
Roger Brown, Snow Belt, 1984, wide horizontal painting with repeated white tree silhouettes against a dark sky, graphic value contrast in flat tonal bands
Roger Brown, Forest Fire, wide horizontal painting with glowing orange atmospheric bands and dark silhouetted trees, dramatic light and dark value contrast
Roger Brown, vertical painting with architectural or landscape subject, stacked flat horizontal color bands and repeated silhouetted forms

Roger Brown (1941–1997) was an American artist and painter. Often associated with the Chicago Imagist school, he was internationally known for his distinctive painting style and shrewd social commentaries on politics, religion, and art. (source)

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