Charles Francis Browne This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. www.stevensfineart.com

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   Published on: 12/29/2007   Last Visited: 12/29/2007

   Born in Natick, Massachusetts, Charles Francis Browne was primarily active in Illinois as a landscape painter and teacher, and was one of the original members of the Eagle's Nest Art Colony in Oregon, Illinois. He was married to the sister of sculptor Lorado Taft.
   
   Browne played an active role in California in 1915 when he was the superintendent of the United States section of the Panama Pacific Exposition where he won an award for painting.
   
   He had traveled West previous to that time when, in the summer of 1895, he and sculptor Hermon Atkins MacNeil and writer Hamlin Garland took a tour of Indian reservation in Arizona and New Mexico. Their stops included the Navajo Reservation, the Hopis at Walpi and Zuni villages, and this trip provided Browne with much material for subsequent paintings.
   
   In 1910, Browne was Assistant Art Commissioner in South America to Buenos Aires and Santiago.

2. 2. Early California Art from Edan Hughes

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   Published on: 9/8/2001   Last Visited: 6/19/2002

   Charles Francis Browne (1859-1920) was born in Natick, Massachusetts on May 21, 1859. He studied at the Boston Museum School, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Eakins, and in Paris for four years at École des Beaux Arts under Gérome. About 1892 he returned from France and settled in Chicago where he shared a studio with George Schreiber and taught at the Art Institute. While based there, Browne was in San Francisco in 1915 as supervisor of the United States section of fine arts at the Panama Pacific International Exposition; he returned to California in 1919 and spent six months visiting in Santa Barbara. He was the brother-in-law of artist Lorado Taft. His luminous landscapes brought him great renown before his death on March 29, 1920. Member: Chicago Society of Artists; Associate of the National Academy of Design (1913). Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts, 1887; National Academy of Design, 1894; Art Institute of Chicago, 1906 (prize); Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915.
   
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