This painting comes from a series of 42 depictions of jockeys' livery colours, entitled "Brown's". Each work in the series is like a diagram, showing the costume for an invisible man. In every painting, the livery colours shown are for jockeys who rode for owners with the surname Brown. Mark Wallinger was interested by the irony in the range of colours registered to that particular surname, noting that if all the different paints on a palette are mixed together, the end result is generally brown. Themes of class and identity are important in Wallinger's work, and he has commented on how it is only the apostrophe in the title "Brown's" which differentiates between appearance and ownership.

Places

Subjects

horse-racing, jockey, sport, conceptual art

Materials & Techniques

linen, oil, oil painting

Artist

Mark Wallinger (1959 - )

Title

Brown’s (Mrs E.W. Brown)

Date

1993

Medium

Oil on linen

Dimensions

height: 110.00 cm, width: 110.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Anthony Reynolds Gallery, November 1997

Inscription

verso tc on foldback: M J Wallinger 1993

GAC number

17285