The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-06-07
GARRETT FOUNTAINS SON
NOW RAPID FIRE ARTIST
Illinois Newspaper Tells of Work
of A. L. Browning

The Sunday Paragraph, a news
paper of Bloomington, Illinois, recent.
ly carried a story of A. L. Browning
a rapid-fre artist, and an industry il
himself, who for AZ years has beer
creating natures scenes with great
rapidity.
The story is brought closer homo
when it is known that this A. l.
Browning is the son of Allen Brown,
ing, who left Garrett county many
years ago for the west. This same A
L. Browning is also the grandson OF
Meshac Browning, pioneer hunter
Following is the story:
A. L. Browning isn't an artist, he's
an industry. Ten or Is minutes in his
studio, downtown store window
will convince you of that for this
man, who has been drawing pictures
for AZ years, creates them with the
speed of a modern factory and not
with the painstaking righteousness
of an artist. Just while we stood and
talked to him he painted three pic
lures in oils and was well started on
his fourth one when we bid him good
bye.
For AZ years Browning has been
creating natures scenes with just
such rapidity. Within a few days he
will leave Bloomington for Colorado
Springs where he will paint and sell
his creations to the one million tour
lists who visit there each summer. Pre-
ceding him to Colorado Springs will
be $3.50 picture frames that he will
require for his art work this summer.
Lived Near Bloomington
An average af 30 pictures day is
what Browning estimates his art out
put since he began drawing AZ years
ago. That was when he resided some
20 or 25 miles south of Bloomington
on farm and after few years spent
in drawing there he moved to the
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traveller making stops for various
lengths of time at summer and winter
resorts. Of late years he has made
his residence at Colorado Springs,
Colo, Long Beach, Calf, and Mineral
Wells, Texas. The summer he spends
in Colorado and his winters he divides
between California and Texas.
But always he continues to draw
and his output as result is tremend-
Gus. All of the scenes he reproduces
are outdoor effects, mainly views he
has seen in the west of mountains,
waterfalls, valleys and winding roads.
He says that he has memorized these
scenes and reproduces them as accu-
rately as camera with the additional
picturesqueness of color which he ap-
plies to the canvas literally.
Never Took Lessons
Browning never took a lesson, he
says. AS a youth he was interested
in drawing pictures and that mania
has followed him through life. He
drew naturally, just as some persons
play musical instruments by instinct.
Especially did outdoor scenes catch
his eye and challenge his brush. To
accurately draw outdoor scenes he
spent months in the open, studying,
remembering and analyzing the
scenes that opened up before him in
the west. He was helped in his wrok
by what he calls "a Photographic eye"
he remembered every scene he studied,
remembered it in every minute detail,
its color formation and appearance
That faculty enables him now to re-
produce scenes almost automatically
and with amazing speed.
He's an industry all right, this
artist of AZ years experience. More
than that he will be master of twin
industry soon as his son, Robert, has
shown decided inclination toward art
work, even though he is only II years
of age. In few years, his father
says, Robert will be painting as well
as his father and then, states MI.
Browning, "well really start turning
out pictures"