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"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.)

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

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

"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.
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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
Penn State U Press 'Pataphysics Unrolled
"'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.  

Phila Bulletin review Brewton
Philadelphia’s Evening Bulletin, March 10, 1968.
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