Courses:

1. Studio in The Materials and Techniques of Painting

1. Major materials include the tools, supports, and techniques of architectural painting, manuscript illumination, and panel painting in encaustic, watercolor, and egg tempera from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1500.

Lectures, library research and studio reconstructions of a masterwork in egg tempera and buon fresco painting. This course may be elected as an advanced undergraduate or graduate school course by permission of the instructor.
Limited to 12 students.

2. Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Painting

2. Major masters and the materials, tools, and techniques of indirect and direct oil painting. Time frame: A.D. 1500-1990. Major topics include the development of panels, canvas, brushes, oil paint, mediums, varnishes, solvents, and the complex relationship between indirect painting employing watercolor, tempera, and oil underpaintings with oil glazes and direct wet into wet painting techniques. Lectures, library research and studio reconstructions of two masterworks, one indirect and the other direct. This course may be elected as an advanced undergraduate or graduate school course with the permission of the instructor.
Limited to 12 students.

3. Studio in the Materials and Techniques of Drawing in the West.

A lecture-studio presentation about the materials and tools, supports, and techniques of wet and dry media drawing in the West from about the year 1400 to the present. The major part of the course is devoted to the period between 1400 to 1700. Topics include the development and manufacture of paper, pens, brushes, inks, watercolor paint, charcoal, metal points, graphite pencils, natural and fabricated chalks, crayons, pastels, erasers, fixatives, etc.
This course includes studio reconstructions of master drawings in a variety of wet and dry media and old master techniques as well as lectures and library research. This course may be elected as an advanced undergraduate or graduate school course with the permission of the instructor.
Limited to 12 students.

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PUBLICATIONS:

Looking at Paintings: "The Entombment by Giovanni di Paolo."
American Artist. NY, Vol. 47, No. 497, December 1983.

Looking at Paintings: Paul Cadmus' "Playground."
American Artist. NY. Vol 46,No. 474, January 1982.

Looking at Paintings: Fayum Mummy Portraits.
American Artist. NY. Vol. 45,No. 472, November 1981.

Looking at Paintings: "Salvator Mundi" by Albrecht Durer.
American Artist. NY. Vol. 48, No. 501, April 1984.

Looking at Paintings: Durer's "Tuft of Cowslips."
American Artist. NY. Vol.47, No. 492. July 1983.

CONTACT HILTON BROWN:

Address:
Professor Hilton Brown, Museum Studies Program, 301 Old College, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716.
Telephone: 302-831-8237.
E-mail: Hilton.Brown@MVS.UDEL.EDU