Jean Brown

Jean Brown (December 20, 1911 – May 1, 1994) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is best known for her work as a librarian and art collector . Her papers were acquired by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, California, in 1985. Life Brown worked as a librarian. She lived in Massachusetts. Her home in Tyringham, MA, became a meeting place for Fluxus artists. The Shaker Seed, as it was called, was an 1845 Shaker house. Brown's father was a rare-book dealer in Brooklyn. Her husband, Leonard Brown, worked as an insurance agent. Collection Brown collected art with her husband Leonard Brown (1909–1970). They began collecting Abstract Expressionism, but turned to Dada and Surrealism when AbEx became too expensive. Brown collected 6,000 artworks by Fluxus, beginning in the 1970s.