San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. xvii, 246 pp. Bibliography; Index. Color and black & white illustrations. A fine copy in dustjacket, as new. Item #18861
ISBN: 9780806144108
volume 14 in the Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West. Grafton Tyler Brown - whose heritage was likely one-eigth African American - finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. He became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Included in this biography is a checklist, descriptions, and reproductions of Brown's ephemera - including billheads and maps.
Price: $75.00