Grafton Tyler Brown
Mount Tacoma (Mount Rainier)

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Artist Grafton Tyler BrownAmerican, 1841–1918

CultureAmerican

Titles

Mount Tacoma (Mount Rainier)

Date1886

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas board: 10 × 17 15/16 in. (25.4 × 45.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Duncan W. Corbett

Object number2024.289

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Department

American Art

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenancePrivate collection, United States; Stanley B. Slocum; [Hindman Auction, 20 October 2023]; [Ben Elwes Fine Art, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed in blue, bottom left corner: GTBrown [print]
Verso: Inscribed upper left: 10x1 [graphite] Noon effect in Midsummer. [ink, print]
Verso: Inscribed in ink, upper right: MT RANIER, Elevation 14,450 ft. / from Puget Sound. 1886 / By G.T. Brown [underlined print]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, lower center: Frame to show all possible at the bottom / of 309 [underlined] / 8 [J.] / Thursday [cursive]

Recto: Signed in blue, bottom left corner: GTBrown [print]

Verso: Stamped in purple ink, center: RUSSELL'S / CANVAS BOARD, / [illegible] MAR 18th, 1879

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