George Elmer Browne

George Elmer Browne (1871–1946) was an American artist known in France and Massachusetts.

George Elmer Browne
Browne in 1919
Born1871
Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
Died1946
Provincetown, United States
OccupationArtist

Biography

Browne was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He studied in Boston at the Cowles Art School and the Museum of Fine Arts before completing his education under Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury in Paris.[1] He founded the West End School of Art at his summer home in Provincetown in 1916 at the tip of Cape Cod far away from his studio in New York. The group was influenced by the impressionists and was among five schools in the town.[2] Browne was very well regarded in France and became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor.[3] Browne has work in Provincetown Museum. In 1919, Browne was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full member in 1928.

Daisy Marguerite Hughes was among Browne's pupils.[4]

Browne died in Provincetown.

References
  1. Benezit Dictionary of artists
  2. O'Connell, Jame C. (2003). Becoming Cape Cod: creating a seaside resort p.84. ISBN 9781584651826.
  3. "George Elmer Browne". EmergencyGallery. Archived from the original on 28 January 2011. Retrieved 20 October 2010.
  4. Jules Heller; Nancy G. Heller (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63882-5.


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