Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695
Fort Worth, TX 76107-2695
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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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About Grafton Tyler Brown: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (6)
All MuseumsCalifornia African American Museum
Exposition Park
600 State Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90037National Museum of American Art-Smithsonian
8th and G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20004Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607Stark Museum of Art
712 Green Avenue
Orange, TX 77630Thomas Handforth Gallery at Tacoma Public Library
1102 Tacoma Ave S
Tacoma, WA 98402