Findlay Galleries is proud to feature our collection with David Mitchell Brown Interior Design in their showroom for Kips Bay, 2025.
Findlay Galleries Collection With David Mitchell Brown
SB 1998.6, 1972
acrylic on canvas | 65 x 50 in.
FG© 134449
During his long life that spanned every decade of the twentieth century, a Ukrainian immigrant became a photographer, a New York fashion illustrator, an American war hero, and a celebrated abstract painter. Simeon Braguin was possessed by a dual passion for sailing and painting. Quietly and privately, Braguin painted daily and produced a significant body of work in various mediums. Although he regularly exhibited at Yale Art School, he garnered much more critical acclaim posthumously than he did while alive. Today, Simeon Braguin’s works are highly regarded for their clever use of color, softness, and diversity of forms.
After Braguin’s second solo show at Poindexter Gallery in New York in 1975, he began increasingly working with tinted colors, allowing them to take over his previously white backgrounds. He was reaching a new peak in the maturity of his style. From the early 1980s onwards, Braguin introduced smaller elements and linear patterns that complemented his carefully balanced geometric shapes.
Braguin aimed for simplicity in design, allowing color to take center stage. The translucency of his color fields reveals his equal concern for detail and nuance, which he incorporated into the overall picture. He drew his inspiration from a deep personal well of experience and was aided in his pursuit of harmony by the beautiful environs of the Connecticut River near Essex Harbor.
Cashmere, 1982
acrylic on canvas | 24 x 24 in.
FG© 139681
A California native, Leonard Edmondson, painter, printmaker, educator, and author, was born in Sacramento in 1916. His college studies began at the Los Angeles City College and continued at the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated in 1942 after earning his B.A. and M.A. in Fine Art. Between 1942 and 1946, Edmondson served in the U.S. Army in Military Intelligence. During these years, he traveled through Europe where he saw a body of work by Paul Klee. Immediately after the war, he explored the collections of the Louvre. Returning to California in 1947, he accepted the first teaching position of his distinguished career at the Pasadena City College. Concurrent with beginning teaching, Edmondson became absorbed with Klee and Kandinsky, studying Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook and Kandinsky’s theoretical writings. The year 1951 was pivotal for Edmondson as he made his first etching during a course taught by Ernest Freed and his first solo exhibition was held at the Felix Landau Gallery in Los Angeles. The following year his first solo museum show was mounted at the de Young Museum. Edmondson’s career included professorships at the Otis Art Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Pratt Institute, and the California State University in Los Angeles where he remained until his retirement in 1986. An enumeration of his numerous awards and fellowships would furnish a roster equal in size to that of the exhibitions in which he has been included. In 1970, he published his technical treatise Etching, which is still a valuable reference to printmakers. A few of the repositories which include his works are the Bibliothèque Nationale, Cornell University, Detroit Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, New York Public Library, and the Worcester Art Museum.
Findlay Galleries has been the exclusive representative of the Edmondson estate since 2010.
Whether Mitch Brown is making contemporary feel classic or traditional feel chic, his diverse aesthetic enriches each of his interiors. Mitch prioritizes his clients’ lifestyle needs above all, delivering form and function to every room. His spaces are comfortable, sophisticated and textural. While a deep love of art and travel consistently influence Mitch’s work, he also draws inspiration from interior design heros – like Micheal Taylor, Karl Springer and Dorothy Draper – as well as movements as diverse as Art Deco, California Style, Modernism and 18th Century Beaux Arts. Mitch credits the unique perspective he offers his Palm Beach clients to his coast-to-coast design experience and to his clients themselves, for providing new and exciting projects over his decades long career.
Currently based in Palm Beach for the past 20 years, Mitch has lived and designed in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas, and Chicago. His work has been featured in the pages of Veranda, LUXE Interiors, Florida Design Magazine, as well as multiple acclaimed Designer Showhouses, including Kipps Bay, Palm Beach. In 2016, Mitch fulfilled his dream of launching his own firm, DAVID MITCHELL BROWN. His esteemed projects include Manhattan cooperatives and estates in the Hamptons, Palm Beach and California. Though collaborating on design details with clients is Mitch’s favorite artistic outlet, his other passions include painting and discovering new architecture and textiles while traveling abroad.
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