Oil on canvas, signed at lower left, presented in a later gilt frame.

Stretcher 31 x 40 in.; Frame dimensions 37 x 46 1/2 in.

Private Collection, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Born in Arkansas, Benjamin Chambers Brown gained international recognition as a California impressionist painter. As a boy, he was very interested in photography. He studied painting at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts under Paul Harney and John Fry, as well as the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.

Brown moved to Pasadena, California in 1896. Here he reveled in the awe-inspiring landscapes of the poppy covered slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains and the snow-capped and windswept peaks of the Sierra Nevada.

Brown was a member, and president, of the California Art Club; a co-founder of the Printmakers of Los Angeles, later known as the California Society of Printmakers; and a member of the Pasadena Society of Artists. His paintings and prints are in numerous prominent public collections including the Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; Laguna Art Museum, California; San Diego Museum of Art, California; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe; the Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama; and others.

Some loss to "wn" of signature; minor stable craquelure; some minor scattered paint flaking to proper left edge of canvas near frame.

$10,000 - 20,000