Tag: Robert Chandler

  • San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…

  • Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…