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Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) Oil on Canvas

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Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) Oil on Canvas
Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918), Lake Tahoe from Lake Tahoe City (1882), oil on canvas, 15½ x 26 inches, signed and dated lower right.

According to G. T. Brown scholar, Dr. Robert J. Chandler, Lake Tahoe from Lake Tahoe City and its companion painting now belonging to the Oakland Museum of California, are the earliest known paintings of the American West by Grafton Tyler Brown.

Lake Tahoe from Lake Tahoe City is recorded in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914.

Verso: Titled, dated and signed

Provenance: Private Collection, Mullica Hill, New Jersey