Michael Brown

Dr. Brown oversees the permanent collection of European Art before 1900, organizes related exhibitions, and contributes to the Museum’s provenance research and art-acquisition programs. His main area of expertise is painting in Spain and the Hispanic Americas. While completing his doctoral dissertation at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts on 17th- and 18th-century Spanish Colonial portraiture, Brown served as the Mayer Curatorial Fellow and subsequently postdoctoral Research Associate at the Denver Art Museum. Dr. Brown has taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the University of Denver and is the author of numerous articles on Spanish portraiture and the history of collecting Hispanic art. His recent exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art include Divine Desire: Printmaking, Mythology, and the Birth of the Baroque, Venetian Views, and Brueghel to Canaletto: Masterpieces from the Grasset Collection.