San Francisco Lithographer African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
2014Chandler, Robert J.
264 pages (color)
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1841 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania - 1918 St. Peter, Minnesota. Known for: Topographic townscape, illustration, lithography.
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Grafton Tyler Brown was an illustrator, landscape and frontier subject painter, and lithographer, who became California's first black sketch artist. He worked first... Read full biography
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Grafton Tyler Brown was an illustrator, landscape and frontier subject painter, and lithographer, who became California's first black sketch artist. He worked first for the lithography firm of Kuchel and Dresel Company, whose specialty was views of California... Read full biography
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Grafton Tyler Brown was an illustrator, landscape and frontier subject painter, and lithographer, who became California's first black sketch artist. He worked first for the lithography firm of Kuchel and Dresel Company, whose specialty was views of California mining towns and mining genre. His family were freed slaves who moved from Maryland in 1837 and arrived in San Francisco from Pennsylvania in the early 1860s. He traveled extensively in that state as well... Read full biography
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Grafton Tyler Brown was an illustrator, landscape and frontier subject painter, and lithographer, who became California's first black sketch artist. He worked first for the lithography firm of Kuchel and Dresel Company, whose specialty was views of California mining towns and mining genre. His family were freed slaves who moved from Maryland in 1837 and arrived in San Francisco from Pennsylvania in the early 1860s. He traveled extensively in that state as well as surrounding areas, painting and drawing the landscape including birds-eye town views, a painting in 1886 of the Grand Canyon, and the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in 1891. In 1861, he joined a lithography business, Kuchel and Dressel, and... Read full biography
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Grafton Tyler Brown was an illustrator, landscape and frontier subject painter, and lithographer, who became California's first black sketch artist. He worked first for the lithography firm of Kuchel and Dresel Company, whose specialty was views of California mining towns and mining genre. His family were freed slaves who moved from Maryland in 1837 and arrived in San Francisco from Pennsylvania in the early 1860s. He traveled extensively in that state as well as surrounding areas, painting and drawing the landscape including birds-eye town views, a painting in 1886 of the Grand Canyon, and the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River in 1891. In 1861, he joined a lithography business, Kuchel and Dressel, and became a part of the management of that firm. The company was known for color views of cities, and... Read full biography
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Yosemite: Art of an American Icon
2006
(Exhibition catalog)Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all221 pages (color)The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)479 pagesDavenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005Davenport, Ray2,421 pagesDrawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park
2002Hassrick, Peter H248 pages (color)Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
2002
Available For Sale.Hughes, Edan Milton1,249 pagesFor Sale<a href="mailto:info@askart.com">Available For Sale</a>.Oregon Painters The First 100 Years:1859-1959
1999Allen, Ginny & Jody Klevit251 pages (color)Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)3,724 pagesSt. James Guide to Black Artists: Published in Association with Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1997Riggs, Thomas (Editor); Howard Dobson (Preface)625 pagesEyes of the Nation A Visual History of the United States
1997Virga, Vincent/Alan Brinkley400 pages (color)African American Art
1994
(Exhibition catalog)San Antonio Museum of Art67 pages (color)A History-African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
1993Bearden, Romare/Harry Henderson542 pages (color)Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990Gerdts, William H396 pages (color)American Canvas The Art, Eye, and Spirit of Pioneer Artists
1990Tyler, Ron208 pages (color)Artists in California, 1786-1940
1989Hughes, Edan Milton637 pagesAfrican American Artists 1880-1987 Selections from the Evans-Tibbs Collection
1989McElroy, Guy C (others)125 pages (color)Picturing America /1497-1899 2 vols /Prints, Maps and Drawings
1988Deak, Gloria-Gilda1,160 pages (color)Grafton Tyler Brown, Nineteenth Century American Artist
1988Tibbs, Thurlow0 pages (color)Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985Dawdy, Doris1,184 pagesThe Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984Orr-Cahill, Christina199 pages (color)Views and Viewmakers of Urban America, 1825-1925
1984Reps, John W570 pages (color)Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel736 pagesCities of the American West A History of Frontier Urban Planning
1979Reps, John W827 pages (color)Art: African American
1978Lewis, Samella246 pages (color)Two Centuries of Black American Art
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Driskell, David C221 pages (color)Cities on Stone 19th Century Lithographs of the Urban West
1976
(Exhibition catalog)Reps, John W99 pages (color)The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976Samuels, Peggy and Harold549 pagesThe Kahn Collection Of 19th Century Paintings by Artists in Caifornia
1975Arkelian, Marjorie64 pages (color)Afro-American Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Directory
1973Cederholm, Theresa Dickason348 pagesThe Afro-American Artist A Search for Identity
1973Fine, Elsa Honig310 pages (color)The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957Groce, George; David Wallace759 pagesMallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge1,130 pages