SCREEN PRINTED COTTON
118 x 116cm
LITERATURE
Twentieth Century Textiles, Sue Kerry, Antique Collectors Club Ltd, 2007
Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008
EXHIBITIONS
Designing Women of Post War Britain, Colorado Springs Fine Art Centre, USA, 2008 Women Design, Mid-Century Britain, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, USA, 2010 Twentieth Century Textiles, Francesca Galloway Gallery, Dover Street, London, 2007 Barbara Brown at the Whitworth Gallery Manchester, 2017
COLLECTIONS
The Victoria & Albert Museum
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
H. Kirk Brown III and Jill A. Wiltse, Denver, Colorado, USA
£3,000
British-born in 1932, Barbara Brown studied at Canterbury College of Art and then the RCA.Whilst at the RCA, Brown sold her first fabric to Heal’s and subsequently designed for them for the next two decades. Like Lucienne Day, she was working for Heal’s ‘without contract on an exclusive basis’. Her ‘Complex’ pattern won the CoID(Design Centre) Award in 1968.