1917- 2002
Born St. Ann, Jamaica
Died Brooklyn , New York
EDUCATION
Self-taught artist
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
The Rainbow Valley. Everald Brown: A Retrospective. National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1986
Solo exhibition, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
1983
Solo exhibition, Creative Arts Centre, UWI, Kingston, Jamaica
1977
Everald Brown and Clinton Brown, Olympia International Art Centre, Kingston, Jamaica
1972
Everald Brown, Kingston and St. Andrew Parish Library , Kingston, Jamaica
1969
Everald Brown, Creative Arts Centre, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002
Fifteen Jamaican artists, Skoto Gallery, New York
2001
Jamaican Art: In the Fullness of Time, Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State College, Plymouth
2000
Prophets and Messengers, Jamaican Intuitives: Works of the Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, The Wayne and Myrene Cox Collection, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
1999
The Elders: Brother Everald Brown and Stanley Greaves, South London Gallery, London, England
1997
Redemption Songs: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, North Carolina
Jamaican Intuitives, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York
Chant Down Babylon: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, Cavin-Morris Gallery, New York
1996
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1995
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Outsider Art Fair, Cavis-Morris Gallery, New York
Three Masters of Jamaican Intuitive Art, Cavis-Morris Gallery, New York
1994
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1993
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1992
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Visionary Roots: Four Jamaican Intuitives, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis
Rastafari Kunst aus Jamaika (traveling exhibition), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Gemany
First Biennial of Caribbean and Central American Art, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Doming, Dominican Republic
Ante America, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia
5th International Biennial Salvador Valero, Trujillo, Venezuela
1492/1992: Un nouveau regard sur les Caraibes, Espace Carpeaux, Courbevoie
1991
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Homage to John Dunkley, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1990
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1989
Fifteen Intuitives, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Black Art Ancestral Legacy, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1988
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
A.D.Scott: Art Patron and Collector, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1987
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Fifteen intuitives, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1986
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Jamaican Intuitives, Art Gallery, Commonwealth Institute, London and Wolverhampton Art Gallery, England
Second Havana Biennial, Wifredo Lam Centre, Havana, Cuba
1985
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1984
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Harmony Hall at the Waggoner Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rastafari Kunst aus Jamaika (traveling exhibition), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Gemany
1983
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Aspects I, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1982
SITES: Jamaican Art 1922-1982, traveling exhibition, United States, Canada and Haiti
Intuitives Artists, Harmony Hall, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1981
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Themes and variations, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1980
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1979
The Intuitive Eye, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1978
Four Jamaican Primitives, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Washington D.C.
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1977
Annual National Exhibition, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Homenaje a la Pintura Latino Americana, San Salvador, El Salvador
1976
Eight Jamaican Primitives, Havana, Cuba
1975
Five Centuries of Art in Jamaica, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1974
Homage to Picasso, Washington D.C.
Self-Taught Artists Exhibition, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1972
Contemporary Art from the Caribbean, OAS Gallery, Washington D.C.
1971
Self-Taught Artists Exhibition, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
1970
Self-Taught Artists Exhibition, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
AWARDS
1978
National Gallery of Jamaica’s Fellowship, Kingston, Jamaica
1974
Musgrave Medal, Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
American Folk Art Museum, New York
WADSworth Atheneum
Art museum of the Americas
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2000
Cox, Wayne. Prophets and Messengers: Jamaican Intuitives. Works of the Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, The Wayne and Myrene Cox Collection. Kingston, Jamaica: Mutual Life Gallery, 2000
Pollard, Velma. Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari. Kingston, Jamaica and Montreal, Canada: Canoe Press, University of the West Indies and McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000 (1994)
1999
Boxer, David et al. Gifts for the Nation: The Donations of Aaron and Marjorie Matalon. Kingston, Jamaica: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1999
Donkor, Godfried et al. The Elders: Brother Everald Brown and Stanley Greaves. London: South London Gallery, 1999
1998
Boxer, David and Veele Poupeye. Modern Jamaican Art. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle and the University of West Indies Development and Endowment Fund, 1998
Murrell, Nathaniel S. William D. Spencer and Adrian A. McFarlane, eds. Chanting down Babylon: The Rastafari Reader. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 1998
Poupeye-Rammelaere, Veerle. Garveyism and Garvey Iconography in the Visual Arts of Jamaica. Part I: Jamaica Journal 24, no 1 (1991); Part II: Jamaica Journal 24, no 2 (1992)
1997
Angel, Felix. Three Moments in Jamaican Art. Washington D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, 1997
Morris, Randall. Redemption Songs: The Self-Taught Artists of Jamaica, Winston-Salem, NC: Diggs Gallery, 1997
Powell, Richard. Black art and culture in the Twentieth Century, World of Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 1997
1995
Archer-Straw, Petrine. Intuitive Lessons: On naming the primitive. In: Tribute to David Boxer: Twenty Years at the National Gallery of Jamaica 1975-1995, ed by Veerle Poupeye. Kingston, Jamaica: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1995
Chevannes, Barry. Rastafari: Roots and Ideology. Syracuse University Press, 1995
1994
Boxer, David. Arawak Vibrations: Homage to the Jamaican Taino. Kingston, Jamaica: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1994
1993
Nettleford, Rex. Inward Stretch, Outward Reach: A voice from the Caribbean. London: MacMillan Caribbean, 1993
1992
Bender, Wolfang et al. Rastafari Kunst Aus Jamaika. Berlin: Edition Con, 1992
Mosquera, Gerardo. Everald Brown. In Ante America. Bogota, Colombia: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango,1992
1990
Archer-Straw, Petrine, and Kim Robinson. Jamaican Art. Kingston, Jamaica: Kingston Publishers, 1990
1989
Boxer, David. Fifteen Intuitives. Kingston, Jamaica: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1989
1988
Poupeye-Rammelaere, Veerle. The Rainbow Valley: The life and work of Brother Everald Brown. Jamaica Journal 21, no 1 (1988): 2-14
1985
Escoffery, Gloria. Harmony Hall Intuitives. Jamaica Journal 18, no. 4 (1985): 52-58
Nettleford, Rex, ed. Caribbean Quarterly Monograph: Rastafari. Kingston: University of the West Indies, 1985
1982
Boxer, David. Jamaican Art 1922-1982. Washington DC and Kingston, Jamaica: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service and National Gallery of Jamaica, 1982
1979
Boxer, David and Rex Nettleford. The Intuitive Eye. Kingston, Jamaica: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1979
1978
Nettleford, Rex. Caribbean Cultural Identity: The Case of Jamaica-an essay in Cultural Dynamics. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Jamaica Publications, 1978
1977
Barrett, Leonard. The Rastafarians: The Dreadlocks of Jamaica. Kingston: Sangster’s, 1977
1976
Boxer, David. Five Centuries of Art in Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: National Gallery of Jamaica, 1976
Owens, Joseph. Dread: The Rastafarians of Jamaica. Kingston: Sangster’s, 1976
1974
Brathwaite, Kamau. Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean. Kingston: Savacou Publications, 1985 (1974)
1972
Nettleford, Rex. Identity, Race and Protest in Jamaica. New York: William Morrow, 1972 (1970)
1971
Brathwaite, Kamau. Art and Society: Kapo, a Context. In Jamaican Folk Art, 4-6. Kingston: Institute of Jamaica, nd (c1971)
1969
Callender, Timothy. The Seed of the Plant. Abeng 1 no. 16 (May 17, 1969)
1961
Smith, M.G., Roy Augier, and Rex Nettleford. The Rastafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1961.
