The Brown Sisters By Nicholas Nixon

In 1975, Nixon began one of his most famous ongoing projects entitled The Brown Sisters. The series consists of a single portrait of his wife, Bebe, and her three sisters each year, consistently posed in the same left to right order. As of 2010, there are thirty-six portraits altogether. The critically acclaimed series has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, Harvard University's Fogg Art Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the National Gallery of Art. In 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston organized the exhibition "Nicholas Nixon: Family Album" which included "The Brown Sisters" series among other portraits of his wife Bebe, himself and his children Sam and Clementine.
Nixon has worked as a part-time professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design since 1975.