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Grafton Tyler Brown(American, 1841-1918)View From Puget Sound, midsummer effect, Mount Tacoma, Washington 12 x 20in overall: 23 x 31in
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Grafton Tyler Brown (American, 1841-1918)
View From Puget Sound, midsummer effect, Mount Tacoma, Washington
signed and dated 'GT Brown 87' (lower left) and inscribed with title '14,450 Ft. high' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas board
12 x 20in
overall: 23 x 31in
Painted in 1887
signed and dated 'GT Brown 87' (lower left) and inscribed with title '14,450 Ft. high' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas board
12 x 20in
overall: 23 x 31in
Painted in 1887
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Provenance
Private collection, Tacoma, Washington.
Property from the collection of John P. Driscoll, New York.
Exhibited
New York, Babcock Galleries, African Americans - Seeing and Seen, 1766-1916, January 21 - April 2, 2010, no. 42.
Like his contemporaries Edward Mitchell Bannister and Robert Scott Duncanson, Grafton Tyler Brown was one of several known African-American artists who achieved commercial success in their day, and whose importance has been rediscovered. Unlike Bannister and Duncanson however, who remained on the East coast for most of their careers, Brown was inspired to move West from his native Pennsylvania to follow the promise of reinvention and new opportunity. A self-taught artist, Brown first trained as a draftsman and printer in Philadelphia at the age of fourteen. Three years later, on the heels of the California Gold Rush boom, Brown arrived in bustling Sacramento, California, finding work as a steward and porter at the St. George Hotel. He continued to develop his art, which garnered favorable local press. Despite a successful stint running a lithography business, Brown spent most of his career painting and exploring the Pacific Northwest, capturing majestic views of Yellowstone, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, and Mount Tacoma, as shown in the present work.
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