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Harrison Bird Brown.(Current and coming)(Brief article)
Harrison Bird Brown was born and remained most of his life in Portland, Maine. His career, like that of many nineteenth-century American painters, followed the route of an apprenticeship (in his case as a house and ship painter), going out on his own as an ornamental painter, and after painting flags and banners, moving on to portraits of people and houses, and finally to landscapes. Landscape is what he is best known for, and his works follow very much in the mode of the Hudson River school.
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Browns reputation in Maine has always been fairly strong. In addition to painting, he was influential in founding the Portland Museum of Art and supported many artistic endeavors in his native city. In recent years his art has become more widely appreciated, and thus his work is now the subject of Vividly True to Nature: ...
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