<I>View of Lake Okanagan, British Columbia</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1882
name: label: Created by
content: Grafton Tyler Brown, American, 1841 - 1918
notes: label: Caption
content: Prior to becoming a painter, Grafton Tyler Brown was a lithographer, cartographer, draftsman, and business owner of print firm G. T. Brown & Co. in San Francisco. In 1879 Brown sold his business and in 1882 moved from the Bay Area to Victoria, British Columbia, where he joined a geological survey party.
label: Caption
content: Brown believed that the landscape of the western Canadian province could "challenge the world for magnificent and picturesque scenery." View of Lake Okanagan was part of a series of watercolor and oil paintings drawn from this experience. Positively received, Brown’s paintings garnered the following commentary in The Daily British Colonist: "the exquisite tints of autumn on the foliage … give the landscapes a rich warm coloring that must be seen to be appreciated."
label: Description
content: This is an oil painting of a landscape showing a lake in a valley. Surrounded by pine trees, rolling hills, and mountains, the lake stretches from the lower left corner of the scene to its disappearing point slightly right of the center scene. To the right of the lake shore are fields, crossed by a wooden fence, along which are two haystacks. There are clusters of pine trees in the foreground and at intervals along the lake shore. More trees and wooded hills are visible in the distance. The painting is signed by the artist in the lower left corner "G.T. Brown."
place: label: Place depicted
content: British Columbia, Canada, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Nature
label: Topic
content: Rural life
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Curtis E. Ransom in memory of Julia Turner Ransom
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.161ab
objectType: label: Type
content: oil paintings
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oil on canvas
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (unframed): 16 1/8 × 26 × 1 in. (41 × 66 × 2.5 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (frame): 23 9/16 × 33 3/8 × 2 3/4 in. (59.8 × 84.7 × 7 cm)