Colleen Browning

Who was Colleen Browning?

Colleen Browning May 16, 1918, Shoeburyness, England – August 22, 2003, New York, NY was an American realist painter.

Browning attended London's Slade School of Art before moving to the United States in 1949, becoming an American citizen a year later. She was a major figure in the contemporary realist movement in the United States. In 2003, after surviving serious illness, she gave a substantial collection of her paintings to the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art.

Browning was a National Academician, and taught at Pratt Institute, City College of New York, and the National Academy of Design. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. Browning's work was reproduced in numerous publications including Time, The New York Times, Newsweek and American Artist magazine.