Belmore Brown (Brown) ( born Belmore Browne ; 1880 - 1954 ) is an American landscape painter and well-known climber. His paintings of animals and mountain landscapes attract naturalistic details collected during his travels in the mountains of Alaska, California and the Canadian Rockies .
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 Brown in climbing gear, 1912 year | |
| Date of Birth | 1880 |
| Place of Birth | Tompkinsville , New York , USA |
| Date of death | 1954 |
| Place of death | USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Genre | painting (landscape) |
| Study | Julian Academy |
| Site | belmorebrowne.com |
Biography
Born in 1880 in the Tompkinsville area of New York.
He studied art at the New York School of Art ( Eng. New York School of Art ) and at the Julian Academy in Paris .
As a child, in 1888, traveled to Alaska with his family. Less than two decades later, he traveled as a hunter, climber, writer and illustrator. In 1902-1904 he collected materials together with the famous naturalist Andrew Stone ( Eng. Andrew Jackson Stone ) in Alaska and British Columbia for the American Museum of Natural History .
After 1905, Brown switched exclusively to mountaineering. He was part of a group that first climbed Mount Olympus in Washington State in 1907. But he became truly famous after three attempts to climb Mount McKinley in Alaska first. [1] In 1906, he joined Frederick Cook and on an expedition to the same peak, as a result of which Cook, the expedition leader, claimed that they had climbed it. Later, Robert Peary and some of Cook's colleagues accused him of falsifying this fact; discussions continue to this day. Four years later, in 1910, Brown and Herschel, funded by Piri, decided to climb this mountain together, but could not find the way to the top. The last, third attempt to conquer the peak of McKinley, Brown made in 1912 again with Herschel. It also ended in failure - climbers returned due to the storm, being only 125 feet below the target. Brown later wrote a lot about his attempts to conquer McKinley, releasing in 1913 a separate book , The Conquest of Mount McKinley .
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| Work on the Alaska Diorama | |
| Deer in the high country | |
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After serving in the army during World War I , Brown and his wife Agnes moved to Banff , Alberta , where they lived year-round, sometimes traveling to California. In the 1930s, for several years, he was the principal of the Santa Barbara School of Fine Arts . At this time, he wrote a lot on the topic of his travels; his works were acquired by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History , the Boston Science Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History . Belmore Brown's paintings are also on display at the Glenbow-Alberta Institute in Calgary , the Smithsonian Museum of American Art , the National Museum of Wildlife Art, and many other museums in the United States and Canada. The artist was elected a member of the National Academy of Design .
Interestingly, at the end of his life, Belmore Brown voluntarily participated in the Korean War , teaching pilots and rescuers how to survive in cold mountain conditions. His lectures were compiled in The Airman's Arctic Survival Guide . [2]
He died in 1954 . Recognized as one of the prominent American artists depicting mountains and wildlife. The archives of the Banff Museum - Whyte Museum , contain documents and works by Belmore Brown. [3]
He was married to Agnes Evelyn Sibley (1882–1976), and two children were born in the family: daughter Evelyn (1915–1994) and son George (1918–1958). The University of New Hampshire created a youth center in honor of his daughter [4] - the Browne Center .
Notes
- ↑ History of the first conquest of the highest peak of North America - McKinley (Denali)
- ↑ The Browne Family Collection (link unavailable )
- ↑ The Whyte Museum
- ↑ The Browne Center was named for Evelyn Browne Archived December 20, 2016 by Wayback Machine .