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)

Works by this artist (5 items)

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Talmudist
Artist
Not on view
Alex R. Stavenitz, Head no. 1, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Joseph J. Senturia, 1978.80.2
Head no. 1
Artist
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Alex R. Stavenitz, Mother and Child, 1932, softground etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1969.3.61
Mother and Child
Artist
Date1932
softground etching
Not on view
Alex R. Stavenitz, Man with a Pipe, 1931, softground etching, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1969.3.62
Man with a Pipe
Artist
Date1931
softground etching
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