Embedded Files
Earliest known photograph of Brown, (from the Portraits Collection of the California Historical Society), n.d.
Online Sources
Online Sources
Lutz, John. 2020. “Grafton Tyler Brown: First Professional Black Artist in the Pacific North West." https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/bc-black-pioneers_les-pionniers-noirs-de-la-cb/story/grafton-tyler-brown-1st-professional-black-artist-in-the-pacific-north-west/.
CBC News. n.d. “How Racism Kept B.C.’s ‘first Professional Artist’ from Fame.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/grafton-tyler-brown-paintings-1.3967509.
Chandler, R. Feb. 18, 2024. "Grafton Tyler Brown." Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grafton-T-Brown.
Chandler, R. San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown. (2016, March 9). YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MIdCrcswo8
Lutz, John, and the University of Victoria. 2015. “The Missing British Columbia Paintings of Grafton Tyler Brown.” https://web.uvic.ca/~hist66/gtbrown/.
Penn State University. Mar. 9, 2021. “Palmer Museum of Art Acquires Rare and Important Work by Grafton Tyler Brown." https://www.psu.edu/news/arts-and-entertainment/story/palmer-museum-art-acquires-rare-and-important-work-grafton-tyler-brown/.
Royal BC Museum. Mar. 3, 2022. “Go West Young Man.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ny22kXNVls.
Times Colonist. Feb. 8, 2015. “Black Artist a Trailblazer in Victoria’s Early Days." https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/black-artist-a-trailblazer-in-victorias-early-days-4618882.
Washington Post. May 2, 2004. “A Painting Pioneer.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2004/05/02/a-painting-pioneer/b107ee83-437a-455c-b70c-41d0d317f5aa/.
Bibliography
Bibliography
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Ebon Research Systems, and Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service. 1975. Blacks in the Westward Movement. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Brown, Grafton Tyler, and Evans-Tibbs Collection. 1988. Grafton Tyler Brown: Nineteenth Century American Artist. Washington, D.C.: Evans-Tibbs Collection.
Chandler, Robert J. 2019. Los Angeles Westerners Corral, “California’s Pre-Eminent African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown: More Popular Than Ever.”
Chandler, Robert J. 2014. San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown. Vol. 14. University of Oklahoma Press.
Fine, Elsa Honig. 1982. The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity. United States: Hacker Art Books.
LaFalle-Collins, Lizzetta, and California African-American Museum. 2003. Grafton Tyler Brown: Visualizing California and the Pacific Northwest. Los Angeles, Calif.: California African American Museum.
LaFalle-Collins, Lizzetta. 1995. “Grafton Tyler Brown: Selling of the Promise of the West.” International Review of African American Art 12 (1).
Lutz, John. 2017. “The Mystery of Grafton Tyler Brown: Race, Art and Landscape in 19th Century British Columbia.”
Chandler, R. Mar. 9, 2016. San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown.
Royal BC Museum. Mar. 3, 2022. “Go West Young Man.”
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