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" Colleen Browning painting of an \"old woman with cat\" 1960s. Size sight 8\" by 17\"\r\nPainter Colleen Browning was a member of the Magic Realist group that includes Paul Cadmus, Jared French, George Tooker, and \r\nRobert Vickrey.  Adding to earlier gifts from the artist, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in 2006 received a major bequest of Browning\u2019s artwork and personal memorabilia from the estate of her late husband, Geoffrey Wagner.  To date, the Museum has accessioned more than 100 paintings and drawings to its permanent collection.  Objects range from early student work made in England during the 1930s to some of her last paintings, executed shortly before her death in 2003.  In the collection are examples of the artist\u2019s best-known work, including her images of Harlem and the New York subway.  Attesting to the diversity of Browning\u2019s oeuvre, there are also landscapes, figure studies, and a series of quasi-abstract compositions based on scrambled TV signals.   Other works include mural studies, stage set designs, and book illustrations.\r\n\r\nBrowning studied at the Slade School of Art in London and commenced her career as a designer of costumes and stage sets.  Her first solo exhibition was held in 1949 at London\u2019s Little Gallery; shortly afterward, she married English novelist Geoffrey Wagner.  Wagner\u2019s career brought the couple to the United States, and after settling in New York City, Browning showed her paintings of Harlem street scenes to early acclaim.  During the 1950s, her work was acquired by several American museums and featured in a number of national exhibitions.  Settling into a routine of painting and exhibiting her work, Browning enjoyed a successful career despite the prevalence of Abstract Expressionism and other nonobjective styles during the 1960s and 1970s.  In later years, she painted some of her largest and most complex canvases, including Iguassu III, Jubilee, and Picture of a Painting of the Great Circus Parade.\r\nWork in collections\r\nDetroit Institute of Arts\r\nThe Milwaukee Art Center\r\nThe St. Louis Art Museum\r\nThe New York State Art Museum\r\nThe National Museum of Women in the Arts\r\nSouthern Alleghenies Museum of Art\r\nThe National Academy of Design\r\nBrowning was a National Academician.[8] She served on the Academy Council from 1969 to 1972.[8]\r\n\r\nHer work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. During her lifetime, Browning's work was also reproduced in numerous publications, including Time, The New York Times, Newsweek and American Artist.[3]\r\n\r\nIn 2013 a retrospective of the artist's work was organized at Fairfield University through Colleen Browning: The Early Works at the Bellarmine Gallery and Colleen Browning: A Brush with Magic at the Thomas J. Walsh Jr. Art Gallery"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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