Author: Robert J. Chandler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145250
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes, he also produced and published maps, charts, and business documents, and he illustrated books, sheet music, advertisements, and labels for cans and other packaging. This biography by a distinguished California historian gives an underappreciated artist and his work recognition long overdue. Focusing on Grafton Tyler Brown’s lithography and his life in nineteenth-century San Francisco, Robert J. Chandler offers a study equally fascinating as a business and cultural history and as an introduction to Brown the artist. Chandler’s contextualization of Brown’s career goes beyond the issue of race. Showing how Brown survived and flourished as a businessman, Chandler offers unique insight into the growth of printing and publishing in California and the West. He examines the rise of lithography, its commercial and cultural importance, and the competition among lithographic companies. He also analyzes Brown’s work and style, comparing it to the products of rival firms. Brown was not respected as a fine artist until after his death. Collectors of western art and Americana now recognize the importance of Californiana and of Brown’s work, some of which depicts Portland and the Pacific Northwest, and they will find Chandler’s checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown’s ephemera—including billheads and maps—as uniquely valuable as Chandler’s contribution to the cultural and commercial history of California. In an afterword, historian Shirley Ann Wilson Moore discusses the circumstances and significance of passing in nineteenth-century America.
San Francisco Lithographer
San Francisco Lithographer
Author: Robert Joseph Chandler
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461957379
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781461957379
Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Historic Lithographs of San Francisco
Author: Joseph Armstrong Baird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lithography, American
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lithography, American
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Reduced Xerox of the Original Text of Historic Lithographs of San Francisco
Author: Joseph Armstrong Baird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lithography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lithography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Inland Printer, American Lithographer
Inland Printer, American Lithographer
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Author: John William Reps
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826204163
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826204163
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West
Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804738835
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.