Footnotes

• As is well documented, Grafton Tyler Brown was the first recorded
  African-American artist active in the American West. Between 1884 and 1892, Brown resided in Portland, Oregon after having lived in San Francisco and Victoria, British Columbia.
  
  The Portland Art Club, the first artists' association in the Pacific
  Northwest, was formed in December 1885 with Brown as its secretary. By 1886
  the club was listed in the city directory with banker Henry W. Corbett as
  President, Cleveland Rockwell as Vice President, Edward Espey as Treasurer and Brown as Secretary.
  
  In addition to Mt. Rainier and Mt. Hood, Brown made his first trips to Yellowstone during his Portland years. During this time he expanded his collector base dramatically. It is likely that nearly half of his career output of oil paintings were Yellowstone scenes. No dated Grafton Tyler Brown oils are known to exist after he moved from Oregon to St. Paul, Minnesota in 1892.
  
  Eagles Nest, Yellowstone, 1890, 1891 is recorded in the Smithsonian
  American Art Museum's Inventory of American Paintings Executed Before
  1914.

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Category: Fine Art / California and Western Paintings

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