Press

Media

"Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. Brewton," talk by Michael R. Taylor at the Philadelphia a la Pataphysique conference, March 2014. (Click here for audio on Slought website.)

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Feature by Mikala Jamison, Philadelphia City Paper,
​April 3-9, 2014. To read the story, visit issuu.com, here.

Aaron Levy, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Slought; Ronald Weingrad, Emily Brewton Schilling, and Patricia Weingrad, James E. Brewton Foundation board members, after installing the solo exhibition at Slought.

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Click image for essay about Brewton on PASC's website, April 2015.

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"Three Researchers, One Asger Jorn," (2014) a film by Denmark's Statens Museum for Kunst and Museum Jorn, shows Brewton and two of his artworks at 33:25 in the video.

Asger Jorn, Jim Brewton and Erik Nyholm (with a Brewton artwork) working on Jorn's nascent museum in Silkeborg, Denmark, 1965. Original photo by Ulrik (Arrow) Ross.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1971

"'Pataphysics Unrolled" was released in April 2022. Click for synopsis, Table of Contents, authors, reviews, on the Penn State University Press website.

Press & bibliography
(in chronological order)

:: "Travel Scholarships Given 17 Students at Academy of Fine Arts." The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 15, 1958. 

:: "Month-Long Exhibition to Open Friday at Art Center; Paintings by Freeland, Jamison, Brewton Capture $100 Awards." Wilmington (Delaware) Journal, April 28, 1959.

:: Leon, Dennis. Review of Private Collections of Fourteen Philadelphia Artists, at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Nov. 8, 1959.
 
:: Canaday, John. Review of American Biennial, The New York Times (with photo of Brewton’s The Suicide of Judas) Nov. 29, 1959.

:: Grafly, Dorothy. “American Art – Whither?” Art in Focus (with cover photo of Brewton’s The Suicide of Judas) Vol. 11, No. 5, February 1960.

:: Photo (Hobson Pittman with Brewton’s self-portrait), Philadelphia’s Evening Bulletin, March 29, 1961.

:: “Broget kunstnerkoloni samlet i Funder,” Aarhuus (Denmark) Stiftstidende Sondag, July 15, 1962.

:: Donohoe, Victoria. Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 31, 1965.

:: Grafly, Dorothy. “Artist’s Suicide Gives Tragic Overtone to Exhibit,” Philadelphia’s Evening Bulletin, May 28, 1967.

:: “James Brewton, Posthumously,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 28, 1967.

:: Grafly, Dorothy. “An Image, a Thought, a Scene…” Philadelphia’s Evening Bulletin, March 10, 1968.

:: Donohoe, Victoria. “A Flurry of Solos,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 10, 1968.

​:: “Peale House Exhibit Opens, Draws 2,000,” Frankford’s (Pa.) Bulletin, March 14, 1968.

:: Donohoe, Victoria. “The Explorations of James Brewton,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1971.

:: Forman, Nessa. “Now That He’s Dead – Has His Time Come?” Philadelphia's Sunday Bulletin, April 25, 1971.

:: Taylor, Michael R. “Pataphysics in Philadelphia: The Strange Case of James E. Brewton,” n.p., the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, annual conference, November 2009.

:: Brady, Shaun. "New Exhibit Explores Our 'Haunting Narratives,'" (photo, Brewton's portrait of Edgar Allan Poe), Metro Philadelphia, May 15, 2012.

:: "Realism in a Minor Key," American Artist magazine (photo,  Brewton's portrait of Edgar Allan Poe) "tinged with a touch more than the typical darkness," October 2012.

:: Three Researchers, One Asger Jorn. Denmark's Statens Museum for Kunst and Museum Jorn (Brewton and two of his artworks, at 33:33), 2014.

​:: Jamison, Mikala. "On the Hunt for One of Philadelphia's Great Art Secrets," Philadelphia City Paper, April 3-9, 2014.

:: Newhall, Edith. "Recollecting a forgotten artist," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, April 27, 2014.
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:: Schilling, Emily Brewton. ​"Jim Brewton, Graffiti Pataphysician," Philadelphia Avant-Garde Studies Consortium, April 24, 2015. 

Bibliography & catalogues

:: Andersen, Troels. Asger Jorn: En biografi (Copenhagen 1994) 2 vols.; German edition (Walther König: Köln 2001). ​

:: Palczynski, Matthew, ed. Haunting Narratives: Detours from Philadelphia Realism, 1935 to the present, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia: Woodmere Art Museum, 2012.

:: Sachs, Sid, ed. Invisible City: Philadelphia and the Vernacular Avant-garde, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia: University of the Arts, 2020.

:: Price, Katie L., and Michael R. Taylor, eds. 'Pataphysics Unrolled, University Park: Penn State University Press, April 2022. A Kindle edition is also available here.  

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Philadelphia’s Evening Bulletin, March 10, 1968.