Franz Brown, Paintings and Photography
Franz Brown, Paintings and Photography
Paintings :
Photography :
Books Published : Painting Videos
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Santa
Claus : Indian Artifacts
| Painter and Photographer Franz Brown lives in Hot Springs, South
Dakota. His work includes landscapes of the Black Hills in oil and acrylic. He
also does some figurative work, portraits and the occasional locomotive that
piques his interest. He recently completed a series of twelve large paintings
showing the Black Hills Forest.
He is currently working on a series of books relating to the important Lakota medicine man, Pte He Woptuha. His work appears signed as Franz Brown and John Porthos Falstaff or John Falstaff. He has been seen worldwide as Santa Claus due to his work as a Santa Claus model in a collaborative project with artist Tom Browning of Oregon. He also does his own Santa and Christmas paintings. |
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Four art books by Brown are currently available. These feature his forest paintings and photography of Lakota artifacts. |
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Art Catalogs Catalogs for projects, shows for Franz Brown and Mary Louise Tejeda.
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Woptuha Project: In 2005 a collection of small objects came to my attention. Initially the number was small but gradually more pieces came forward until it became considerable. A small number of advance books were prepared so as to present the objects pictorially. At that point little analysis had been done. Much work is still needed. It was also hoped that individuals sufficiently interested in the subject could not only be informed about the material being presented but more importantly might be stimulated to provide information about the objects. A few people have provided sufficient commentary to help in the continuing analysis of the objects. Many interesting questions have been raised. Although it is felt that the main portion of the collection is legitimate a small block of objects within the collection seems sufficiently questionable as to warrant their exclusion from legitimacy. I hope to add more discussion later but will provide a continuing update here. |
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With Larry Belitz of Hot Springs, SD he has been
photographing Lakota and Plains Indian
artifacts and replications. |
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Franz has been working on a series of Santa Paintings. Besides this effort,
for over twenty years
he has worked with Tom Browning ( Eugene, Oregon) on Browning's series of
paintings of Santa Claus. These have been published world wide. |
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 Contact Franz Brown fkbrown@gwtc.net or write Franz Brown, 646 S 16th Apt B4, Hot Springs, SD 57747 605-745-3718 |
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Movie poster illustrator and fine arts artist, Reynold Brown (Main website), is the father of Franz Brown.
Artist Mary Louise Brown, mother of Franz Brown, is a pastel artist working in Nebraska.
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