Michael Brown

Above the Town
Blue Sky_Michael Brown
Big Clouds
Blue and Brown_Michael Brown
Blue & Brown
Cold Wind in October
Corn field_Michael Brown
Corn Field
Dark_Michael Brown
Dark
Dunes_Michael Brown
Dunes
fall_Michael Brown
Fall
Field_Michael Brown
Field
From the Water Tower
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Green Trees
Green with Lake_Michael Brown
Green with Lake
Hay Bales I_Michael Brown
Hay Bales I
Hay Bales II_Michael Brown
Hay Bales II
House in field_Michael Brown
House in Field
In the Yadkin Valley
JaynesYard_Michael Brown
Jayne’s Yard
Jetty_Michael brown
Jetty
Large Sky_Michael Brown
Large Blue Sky with Clouds
Leaves in winter_Michael Brown
Leaves in Winter
Lone Big tree_Michael Brown
Lone Big Tree
Montana Aspens
Mt favorite sky_michael brown
My Favorite Sky
November Ramble
November Ramble
Olive Greens_Michael Brown
Olive Greens
Out West
Over the Hill
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Pale Green
pale with tree_Michael Brown
Pale with Tree
Path With Trees_Michael Brown
Path with Trees
skinny trees_Michael Brown
Skinny Trees
Storm with clouds_Michael Brown
Storm with Clouds
Tall Tree-Michael Brown
Tall Tree
Telephone Pole II_Michael Brown
Telephone Pole II
tree with pink leaves_Michael Brown
Tree with Pink Leaves
Violet Storm
Yadkin Valley 1
yellow grass_Michael Brown
Yellow Grass

Artist Bio

Michael Brown has been a professional artist for over thirty years exhibiting his landscape paintings in a number of gallery and museum shows throughout North Carolina, but he is best known for his mural work.  He has completed numerous murals in North Carolina, as well as in Virginia, West Virginia, New York, Florida, Chicago and Baltimore. As part of the Chapel Hill/UNC bicentennial celebration, he was commissioned to do a painting for the Post Office as a companion piece to an existing mural by the distinguished Depression-era artist, Dean Cornwell. Other prominent murals include a large realistic historical painting which encircles the walls of the historic Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina and murals for the rotunda of the Greensboro Public Library and the Veterans Museum in Tarboro.

Brown received a Bachelor of Fine Arts at UNC Chapel Hill in 1977 and was a fellow in residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Providence, Massachusetts from 1977 through 1979. After completing his education he was hired by the Guggenheim Museum in New York to design and implement a program for disadvantaged and challenged students which he completed in 1981. He then began teaching at Meredith College in Raleigh where he taught for the next decade.

He has been featured in periodicals and newspapers such as The Durham Herald, The News and Observer, Carolina Alumni Review, Our State, Chapel Hill Magazine, Oxford American, The Independent, The Village Voice, and The Baltimore Sun.