San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler BrownPosted in Biography, Book/Video Reviews, History, Media Archive, United States on 2015-03-12 20:39Z by Steven |
San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
July 2014
Amy De Simone, Research Consultant
Kansas State University
by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95.
More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown is about the emerging lithography scene in nineteenth-century San Francisco and Brown’s role in it as a mixed race artist and businessman. Author Robert J. Chandler, previously the senior research historian for Wells Fargo Bank, has done extensive research on the life and times of Brown. Though other scholars have written about Brown, Chandler’s work is the first comprehensive biography, which seamlessly references appropriate field literature to piece together Brown’s life from his birth in Pennsylvania to his death in Minnesota…
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