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ID: 500109068
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500109068

 

Record Type: Person
Brown, Grafton Tyler (American painter, printmaker, 1841-1918)

Note: First African-American artist to work professionally in California and the first African-American artist of the Western United States.

Names:
Brown, Grafton Tyler (preferred,V,index)
Grafton Tyler Brown (V,display)
Brown, Grafton T. (U,Dutch-P,NA)
Grafton T. Brown (U,Dutch,NA,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
African American
Black

Roles:
artist (preferred)
printmaker
painter
illustrator
lithographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Harrisburg (Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, United States) (inhabited place)
Died:  Saint Peter (Nicollet county, Minnesota, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   California (United States) (state)

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Brown, Grafton Tyler (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, printmaker, 1841-1918) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American lithographer, 1841-1918) ..... [RKD]
(American painter and lithographer, 1841-1918) ..... [VP]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Brown, Grafton T. ........ [RKD Preferred, VP]
...................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 103773
Brown, Grafton Tyler ........ [BHA Preferred, VP Preferred]
.........................................  Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon / Artists of the World (2009-) accessed 1 November 2023
.........................................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 1 November 2023
.........................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
.........................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) no 93036439
.........................................  Two centuries of Black American art (1976)
Grafton T. Brown ........ [RKD, VP]
.................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Grafton Tyler Brown ........ [VP]
.......................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, RKD, VP]
....................  Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 21 March 2003
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Cederholm, Afro-American artists (1973)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: no93036439
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Groce and Wallace, Artists in America (1957)
....................  Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 34-36
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: no93036439
....................  New York Public Library, Catalog of Art & Architecture (1975)
....................  Perry, Nineteenth-Century Afro-American Art (1976)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 103773
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q5592570
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Ask Art [online] (2003) accessed 21 March 2003
.......... LACMA, Two Centuries of Black American Art [exhibition] (1976)
.......... Lewis, African American Art and Artists (2003) 34-36
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