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
Nationalities
  • American
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)