Artist
Grafton Tyler Brown
born Harrisburg, PA 1841-died St. Peter, MN 1918
- Also known as
- Grafton T. Brown
- G. T. Brown
- Grafton Brown
- Born
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
- Died
- St. Peter, Minnesota, United States
- Active in
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Biography
Grafton Tyler Brown, originally from Pennsylvania, had moved to San Francisco by the early 1860s. He ran a lithography business and made images of a "tamed Wild West." Brown increasingly focused on painting after he went on a geological survey in 1882; the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone was a favorite subject between 1886 and 1891. View of the Lower Falls, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone [SAAM, 1994.56] may have been based on sketches he made while traveling, or on commercial photographs available at the time.
Free within Ourselves (exhibition text, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1992)