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LORYN AND DOUG BRAZIER Loryn Brazier
Loryn and Doug Brazier live happily among the 55 artworks that adorn their elegant home in a historic neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. Art has long been a passion for Loryn, who recalls, “Since I was the kid in elementary school who could draw, I was always the one designated to decorate the blackboard.” She went on to become an illustrator and own an advertising agency, then launched a career painting portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and figurative subjects — one so successful that her works are in the collections of such
museums as the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Somehow Loryn also found time to run her own Richmond gallery for 23 years; there she represented other talented artists and in 2012 founded the annual Plein Air Richmond competition and festival. Since the 1990s she has also been a popular instructor and regularly invites other accomplished artists to teach in her studio. Loryn and Doug, who is a real estate appraiser, started collecting in the mid-1980s upon returning from
a year of travel in Europe, where she had started painting. Doug says their first acquisition together was an etching by the Swedish master Anders Zorn (1860–1920) “for which I spent a lot of time searching.” Since then, the Braziers’ collection has grown to include paintings by such contemporary talents as Michael Albrechtsen, Anne Blair Brown, Kim English, Trey Finney, Ed Hatch, Addison Hodges, Charles Iarrobino, Robert Johnson, P.A. Jones, Mark Laguë, Annie Harris Massie, Larry Moore, Michael Shane Neal,
Doug Brazier
ANNIE HARRIS MASSIE (b. 1961), Snowy Day in Brownsburg #1, 2001, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.
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