Laurie Brown American b. Vintage gelatin silver print, printed 1979. Signed in pencil in the margin. From an unnumbered edition of 35 (Edition 22/35). Only 22 prints were made available to the public – the others went to the artists and museums. Image size: 7 ¾ x 11 ½ inches. Print size: 11 x 14 inches. Mat size: 16 x 20 inches. Provenance: Private Collection, NY; Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago; David & Sarajean Ruttenberg Collection, Chicago (1983); Susan Spiritus Gallery, Newport Beach, CA. Condition: Excellent; lower left corner slightly creased, only in the margin and NOT affecting the image; this print has been housed in the original archival portfolio case since its printing. Laurie Brown was born in Austin, Texas and raised in Los Angeles. She received a B. In International Relations from Scripps College in Claremont, California and a M. Degree in Fine Arts from California State University, Fullerton. In 1978 Brown was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant and in 2002 she was designated Outstanding Individual Artist of the year by ARTS Orange County. Laurie Brown’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Philadelphia Museum of Art, California Museum of Photography at UCR, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Brown has had one-person and group exhibitions at numerous institutions, including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Laguna Art Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Huntington Library and the Sezon Museum in Tokyo. Laurie Brown’s first book of photographs, RECENT TERRAINS: Terraforming the American West, was published in 2000 by Johns Hopkins University Press in association with The Center for American Places. Brown’s latest book, LAS VEGAS PERIPHERY: Views From the Edge, was recently published in 2013 by George F. California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside, 2016- 17 Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, 2013 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, 2001 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 1998, 2001 Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California, 1995 Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, 1993 Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California, 1992, 1996 Cypress College, Cypress, California, 1991 Palm Springs Art Museum, California, 1988 Scripps College, Claremont, California, 1987 Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 1986, 1989 The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, 1983 Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Los Angeles, California, 1982 Stage One Gallery, Orange, California, 1980 Janus Gallery, Venice, California, 1979, l982, 1984 Arco Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, California, 1978 G. Gallery, Photography Department, UCLA, California, 1978 California State University, Fullerton, 1976.