Lot Number: 79
Poppy field near Pasadena 1907
Dimensions: 4 x 6in
Oil on panel Signed
Realized Price: 4,270 USD
Estimate: 2,500 - 3,500 USD
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles- View Details
Aug 9, 2011
Benjamin Chambers Brown, born in Marion, Arkansas, were he was a landscape painter and printmaker, known for his Impressionist landscapes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and fields of poppies. His primary mediums were oil, lithography and etching.
Brown was educated at the University of Tennessee and at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts with Paul Harney and John Fry. His early interest was photography. In 1890, accompanied by friend William Griffith, he went to Paris for a year of study with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant at the Academy Julian.
Returning to the United States, he lived in St. Louis, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Texas. His early specialties were portraiture and still life. After moving to Pasadena in 1896, he turned to local landscape and also painted the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert in Arizona.
He died in Pasadena in 1942.
Sources:
Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940
Peggy and Harold Samuels, Artists of the American West
William Gerdts and Will South, California Impressionism
Exhibitions
1891, 1919 Art Institute of Chicago
1899, 1924, 1925 California State Fair
1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, OR
1906, 1908 Blanchard Gallery, Los Angeles
1907, 1909 Bentz Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1908 Steckel Gallery, Los Angeles
1909 Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, WA
1911 Hotel Green, Pasadena, CA
1912, 1914 Del Monte Gallery
1915 Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, CA
1915, 1916 Pan.-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco
1915, 1917, 1918, 1924, 1929 Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1916, 1918 California Art Club
1916 San Francisco Art Association
1917 Sacramento Fair
1919 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C
1922, 1923 Santa Ana, CA
1924 Los Angeles Federal Women’s Club
1926 Springville, UT
1926 Los Angeles County Fair
1932 Pasadena Society of Artists, CA
1932 Gardena Artists Competition
1932 Oakland Art Gallery
Awards
1905Medal, Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland OR
1909Silver Medal Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, WA
1915Bronze Medal, Pan.-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, CA
1916, 1918Prizes, California Art Club
1916Gold Medal, Pan.-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, CA
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Benjamin C. Brown (1865-1942)
