Jeff Brouws - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips

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  • “Little boxes on the hillside,
    little boxes made of ticky tacky,
    little boxes on the hillside,
    little boxes all the same”
    —Malvina Reynolds
    Reynolds’ song “Little Boxes” took inspiration from Daly City, California’s community of Henry Doelger’s stock houses originally built to house GI’s and their booming families after WWII. Growing up in Daly, Brouws returned to his hometown to find the once uniform neighborhoods awash with vibrant colors of all kinds. These bold palettes had been chosen by recent Asian immigrants to express their individuality upon taking residence in the conventional city. This unique view of New Americana reconstructs the typology of suburbia by overturning conformity, captured under the astute gaze of Brouws. Crediting artists such as Ed Ruscha for his typologies, and the likes of New Topographical photographers Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, Brouws continues to investigate the constructed American landscape. 

     
    • Provenance

      Robert Mann Gallery, New York

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Freshly Painted Houses

N.P: self published, 2003. 22 (of the 24 issued) archival pigment prints.
Each 5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
Each signed, titled, dated, and numbered 3/9 in pencil on the verso. Signed, dated and numbered 3/9 in ink on the colophon; with printed title and introduction by Brouws. Enclosed within a black linen clamshell portfolio with embossed title.

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$7,000 - 9,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024