About Reynold Brown

  • Biography

    The following biography is from the artist's web site, www.geocities.com/chapulinas/ with permission of Franz Brown.

    Reynold Brown was born in 1917 in Los Angeles as William Reynold Brown to William Reynold Brown (a railroad engineer) and his wife Ada (Fairley) Brown. He drew continuously as a child. He particularly liked telling stories by drawing, comic book style, for the neighborhood children while sitting on a sidewalk curb or a porch stairway.

    He got a well rounded art education in Alhambra High School in California under the stewardship of a World War I veteran and artist, Lester Bonar. His skills won him a scholarship to attend art school after graduation but due to the death of his father he had to begin working to c...

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