Biography courtesy of Who Was Who in American Art, the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.

Birth place:  Marion, AR

Death place: Pasadena, CA

Addresses: Pasadena, CA

Profession: Landscape painter, lithographer, etcher

Studied: Univ. Tennessee; Washington Univ.; St. Louis Art Sch., with Paul Harney and John Fry; Académie Julian, Paris, with Constant, Laurens

Exhibited: AIC, 1891, 1919; Lewis and Clark Expo., Portland, OR, 1905 (med.); Alaska-Yukon-Pac. Expo., Seattle, 1909 (med.); Del Monte Gallery, before 1914; Calif. AC, 1916 (prizes), 1918 (prize); Pan.-Pac. Expo., San Franc., 1915 (med.), 1916 (gold); Sacramento Fair, 1917 (med.); LACMA, 1915 (solo), 1917 (solo), 1918 (solo), 1929; Corcoran Gal, 1919; Santa Ana, CA, 1922 (prize), 1923 (prize); LACMA, 1924 (prize); Los Angeles Fed. Women's Club, 1924 (prize); Calif. State Fair, Sacramento, 1924 (prize), 1925 (prize); Springville, UT, Competition., 1926 (prize); Los Angeles County Fair, 1926 (prize); Pasadena SA, 1932 (prize); Gardena A. Comp., 1932 (prize); Oakland Art Gallery, 1932

Member: AFA; Laguna Beach AA; Calif. Printmakers; Chicago SE; Pasadena SA; Calif. AC.

Work: Municipal collections, Oakland, CA, Phoenix, AZ; public libraries, Pasadena, Boise (ID), Helena (AR); Calif. State Library, Sacramento; LACMA; Southwest Mus.; Municipal Coll., Los Angeles; CMA; British Mus., London; LOC; Kellogg Library, Emporia, KS.; Montclair (NJ) AM; Witte Mus., San Antonio; MFA, Little Rock, AR; Mus. New Mexico

Comments: Trained in photography early on, he specialized in portraiture and still lifes until he moved to California and painted landscapes. He and his brother Howell Ch. Brown (see entry) cofounded the Printmakers of LA.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists in California, 73; P&H Samuels, 68.