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|  Born in Glassboro, New Jersey, Francis Brown was a professor at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, Indiana from 1925 to 1957 and from 1957 was Professor Emeritus. He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon and the Indiana Art Club.
Source: Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art |
Biography from Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers, Inc.:
| Born in Glassboro, New Jersey in 1891, Francis Brown studied with William Forsyth and J.
Otis Adams at the John Herron School. He also attended Ball State and Ohio State Universities.
Brown was a member of the Hoosier Salon and exhibited at the
Pennsylvania Academy, Cleveland Museum of Art, Hoosier Salon and at the
Richmond Art Association where he won a prize in 1922.
He was the director of the art gallery at Ball State in Muncie.
Brown was a quite versatile artist, and his paintings range from simple
landscapes to the post-impressionist style which has earned him the
comparison, "The American Van Gogh"."
Submitted by: Angela Lawson, Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers, Inc.
SOURCE:
James, A. Everette Jr., Sc.M., J.D., M.D. James, Everette III,
M.B.A., J.D. Regionalist Art of Indiana.
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