Carolyn Brady; Artist in Watercolor
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Carolyn Brady, 67, Artist in Watercolor, Is Dead
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Carolyn Brady, an artist known for her large Photorealist
watercolor paintings, died on May 5 at the Mayo Clinic in
Rochester, Minn. She was 67 and lived in New York City.
The cause was complications after heart surgery, said her
dealer in New York, Nancy Hoffman.
Ms. Brady arrived at her signature style in the mid-1970's,
when realism was enjoying a revival. She began painting
flowers in vases, table settings and other scenes based on
photographs that she took in and around her home. With their
sharp focus, luminous colors and dimensions as great as 60
by 90 inches, her paintings have a hyper-realistic visual
impact rarely encountered in the medium of watercolor.
Carolyn Brady was born on May 22, 1937, in Chickasha, Okla.
She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the
University of Oklahoma in Norman in 1959 and went on to earn
her Master of Fine Arts degree at the same school in 1961.
She had her first solo exhibition in 1975 at Nancy Singer
Gallery in St. Louis and the first of many New York solo
shows at Nancy Hoffman Gallery in SoHo in 1977.
Ms. Brady's works are in the collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; the National Museum of Women in the
Arts, Washington; and the Art Institute of Chicago, among
numerous other institutions.
Ms. Brady is survived by her husband, the sculptor Bill
Epton, and her son, Alexander Brady Epton, both of New York
City.