All Souls’ Eve
2014
Oil on linen
12 1/2 x 15”

Blueberries on Horseback
2009
Oil on linen
12 1/2 x 17”

Cecily Brown (b. 1969, London, England) is a British painter who relocated to New York, in 1995. She works primarily in oil on canvas, using brushes specially made of squirrel and ox hair to create lush, tactile paintings. Broadly inspired by the history of painting from El Greco and Rubens to Willem de Kooning and Joan Mitchell, Brown’s work transcends traditional boundaries of representation and abstraction, simultaneously concealing and revealing. She is known for her opulent application of lush gobs and smears of rich color, building up the surfaces of her paintings, and generating a tensile surface energy.