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Photo: Scott Leen
Portrait of Noel with Cloud at Clear Lake
Photo: Scott Leen

Portrait of Noel with Cloud at Clear Lake

Date1963
Label TextIn this early painting, Joan Brown depicts her young son with his toy penguin—a personal, mundane domestic scene that was a radical departure from the traditional lofty subject matter of Western painting
Object number83.264
Photo CreditPhoto: Scott Leen
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Freeing the Figure, November 5, 2009 - November 28, 2010. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Collection Highlights: 1945 To The Present, September 12, 1996 - June 1, 1997. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Poke in the Eye: Art of the West Coast Counterculture, June 21 - September 2, 2024.
Credit LineGift of Byron R. Meyer in honor of the museum's 50th year
Dimensions34 1/8 x 30 in. (86.68 x 76.2 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
Cloud Form
1957
Object number: 65.176
Across Lake Union
1957
Object number: 57.99
Photo: Scott Leen
Alfredo Arreguín
1995
Object number: 2022.13
Portrait of Polly
1977
Object number: 84.100
Portrait of a young lady with red corsage
ca. 1890-1900
Object number: 69.136
Image courtesy of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection
1983
Object number: 2020.15.10
Photo: Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios. Courtesy of the Friday Foundation
1963
Object number: 2020.14.6
Photo: Spike Mafford / Zocalo Studios. Courtesy of the Friday Foundation
1967
Object number: 2020.14.7