Ms. LeFalle-Collins:

The Los Aaangeles County Museum of Art owns one of his
landscapes; there are also two at the Oakland Museum.

I look forward to reading your work on Brown.

Ilene Susan Fort
Curator of American Art
Los Angeles County Museum of ARt


--- Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> I am completing research and writing on a 19th
> century “mulatto” painter and
> lithographer, Grafton Tyler Brown (1848-1918). He
> was an active
> lithographer/publisher in the San Francisco Bay Area
> from about 1860-1882
> (signing his work G.T. Brown or G. T. Brown and Co.)
> before leaving for
> British Columbia where he redefined himself as a
> painter exhibiting in the
> Victoria area. By the end of 1883 he was traveling
> and painting scenes of
> Washington and Oregon and well-known locals as
> Yellowstone and Yosemite
> until about 1890. He usually signed and dated his
> paintings G. T. Brown
> sometimes Grafton T. Brown. Brown worked from nature
> as well as from
> photographs. I have contacted many historical
> societies and museums in the
> western states in search of his work. I often locate
> works not filed under
> his name even if his name appears in small print on
> a lithograph or map.
> Brown completed and exhibited 22 paintings at the
> Occidental Hotel in
> Victoria in 1883 but I have only located one aside
> from the four owned by
> the British Archives. Does anyone have any works by
> Brown, even his
> commercial billheads? What was once an exhibition
> catalog will now be a book
> so I am including much more material. My manuscript
> deadline is looming so
> please contact me off line if you have any leads.
> Thanks.
>
> [log in to unmask]
> Lizzetta LeFalle-Collins
> LeFalleCuratorial
>
>
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