This is my grandfather in the home where my father was raised.

This is my grandfather in the home where my father was raised.

The walls behind him were not just decoration. They were filled with his work. Pieces he painted himself, framed himself, and chose to live with every day.

Art was not separate from life. It was part of the home, part of the environment, part of what surrounded the family.

In these images, you can see works like Voodoo Night, Trees of Life, Family No. 1 (featured in the Houston Art Education Association), Mr. Fog, and others that are now part of the Brown Renfro collection.

What makes this even more meaningful is that these were not created for a gallery. They were created, lived with, and experienced in real time, inside the space where his children were growing up.

This is where the work lived first.

We don’t just hang the art.

We carry it on.

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