School of the Art Institute to Sell its Roger Brown Study Collection to Kohler Foundation
SAIC and the Kohler Foundation today announced the college will transfer ownership of the art and archives in its Roger Brown Study Collection (RBSC) to the John Michael Kohler Arts Center Art Preserve. The dynamic collection, which currently resides in SAIC alum Roger Brown’s (BFA 1968, MFA 1970) former residence at 1926 North Halsted Street in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, contains more than 2,000 artworks by Chicago Imagists and non-mainstream artists, folk and indigenous art, objects from material and popular culture, costumes, textiles, furniture, travel souvenirs, and sundry objects. Read more.
Digital resources are still available to the SAIC community.
Questions? Email rogerbrownestate@saic.edu.