Brown, Adele Smith, 1910-

Art administrator and instructor; Washington, D.C.; Full name Adele Smith Brown; Maiden name Adele K. Smith.

Brown worked as manager of the Phillips Studio House of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, 1933-1937; manager of the Museum of Modern Art Gallery of Washington, affiliated with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, 1937-1939, followed by an exhibition assistant, 1940-1942 for the Section of Fine Arts; b. 1910; d. 2001.

From the description of Adele S. Brown papers, 1934-1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77821208

Brown, an art administrator in Washington, D.C., managed the sales gallery of the Phillips Studio House from 1933-1937. Calfee, a painter and sculptor, taught at the art school affiliated with Studio House from 1933 until it closed in 1945.

Phillips Studio House, founded by C. Law Watkins, Associate Director of the Phillips Memorial Gallery, was both an art school and commercial gallery. It opened in November 1933, and closed in 1945 upon Watkins' death. In 1946 Calfee and a group of artists affiliated with the school were asked to form the first art department faculty at American University for which he served as its department head until 1954.

From the description of Oral history interview with Adele S. Brown and William H. Calfee, 1995 Jan. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 227192938