Benjamin Brown -Summer (Sold)

Benjamin Brown (1877-1941)

Born in Marion Arkansas, Benjamin Brown was a landscape painter and printmaker known for his Impressionist landscapes of California, especially fields of poppies and of the Sierra Nevada mountains. His primary mediums were oil, tlthography and etching, although he di watercolor painting throughout his career. Brown was educated at the University of Tennessee and at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts with Paul Harney and John Fry. His early interest was photography. In 1890, accompanied by friend William Griffith, he went to Paris for a year of study with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant at the Academy Julian. Returning to the United States, he lived in St. Louis, Little Rock, Arkansas and Texas. His early specialities were portrature and still lifes, but moving to Pasadena in 1896, he turned to local landscape and also painted the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert in Arizona. In 1914 he began doing etchings, adn with his brother, Howell, co-founded the Printmakers of Los Angeles, later known as the California Society of Printmakers.

“Summer in Mint Canyon” has a label verso “Exhibited Pasadena Society of Artists “Summer in Mint Canyon” Original Price of $400-