unfinished-business.jpg Painting by James Brown, Jr.

James Brown, Jr's., journey began in Harlem, New York City in 1939.
His cultural experience was felt immediately as his Mother traveled with him to Florida every year for the next ten years. In Florida, Brown experienced the old South on the family farm located in an African village hidden away in the Ocala forest. The land was part of the homestead of his Great Grand Father an Africcan who had run away from slavery in South Carolina. His escape happened after he had been shot in the head and left for dead.
In Harlem the cultural manifestations in the community were new beginnings for all the Black folk who had migrated North. These were the years of the Depression and WWII, all of which influenced Brown's earliest memories and subsequent works of art.
Brown began drawing and painting by the age of four. He first began studing oil painting in 1954 while in High School. Later in 1958 he attended the Arts Students League then for the next ten years the school of Visual Arts, all on a part-time schedule.
The artistic images produced by James Brown, Jr., over fifty years and counting represent an accumulation of the history he lived through, cultures he experienced, and wisdom he accumulated. In 2012- 13 Brown's lifelong accomplishments as an artist were recognized when he was selected as one of ten Washington, DC artists to participate in ArtCart: Saving the Legacy project of the Research Center for Arts andCulture, National Center for Creative Aging. The project documents the work of selected artist, ages 62-100 years old and archives the data at the Columbia University's open source archive, Academic Commons. The washington, DC artists were featured in "Cherishing The Legacy", an exhibition of their works held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art-College of Art & Design, September 11-29, 2013. Some of the highlights of Brown's journey in the arts will follow:

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1939
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists