Milky Way Painting

This is a large oil on canvas representation of the Milky Way galaxy by artist Frederick James Brown. The piece consists of red, green, orange, yellow, blue, and white oil paint on a stretched canvas. Certain sections of the painting have large globs of paint on them, which need to be carefully worked around during handling, installation, and deinstallation. This is a large painting, created by the artist on commission for the Doane family in Chicago, Illinois. The artist worked with Adler staff in 1977 to create a visualization of the Milky Way galaxy. The piece was originally intended for the Adler, but for personal reasons remained with the family after the artists' death in 2012.