Artwork copyright Joan Brown. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2023.
Nanda Devi #7, 1980
Joan Brown
American (born 1938, died 1990)
Location: Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia
About the Artwork
This painting by Joan Brown is named after Nanda Devi, the second-highest mountain in India and the 23rd-highest peak in the world. Nanda Devi is sometimes referred to as the Mother Goddess. Joan Brown traveled to India in 1980, the same year this was painted, and became a follower of the yogic guru Sai Sathya Baba (1926-2011). She made a series of paintings about this mountain.
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Washington State Arts Commission.
About the Artist
Influential artist Joan Brown (1938-1990) painted everyday imagery from her own life and travels. This imagery often merged into into a spiritual quest.Born in San Francisco, Brown earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a leader in the Bay Area Figurative Movement and a professor of art at University of California, Berkeley. Brown's art is in many museum collections and she has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and many others.
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