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 extens (showing 500 of 5870 characters). |
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Painters of Grand Canyon
Black American Artists
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