Calvin Brown
Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings
With a B.F.A. from Cooper Union (1974) and an M.F.A. from Yale University (1978), Calvin Brown came to the Princeton University Art Museum in 1998 with an extensive background as a practicing artist and over thirty years of experience in museum print rooms. Calvin has worked at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts; the Yale University Art Gallery; the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he was the senior restorer in the Department of Drawings and Prints for eighteen years. While at Princeton, he has organized exhibitions and installations drawn from the museum's rich collection of prints and drawings, many of which have been in cooperation with the Department of Art and Archaeology. He has had primary responsibilities for such major exhibitions as Le Corbusier at Princeton: 14-16 November 1935 (2001), West to Wesselmann: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Princeton University Art Museum (2004), and Pop Art at Princeton: Permanent and Promised (2007). Appointed assistant curator in 2006, his specialty is in modern and contemporary prints and drawings.
