{"id":40413,"date":"2015-03-12T20:31:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40413"},"modified":"2015-03-12T20:31:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T20:31:12","slug":"finding-grafton-tyler-brown-african-american-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40413","title":{"rendered":"Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keith-skinner.com\/finding-grafton-tyler-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keith-skinner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Skinner: Writer: Renegade Image: Fiction, memoir, travel &amp; essays<\/a><br \/>\n2014-05-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keith-skinner.com\/about-me\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Keith Skinner<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grafton_Tyler_Brown\" target=\"_blank\">Grafton Tyler Brown<\/a> before. I was just trying to develop a character for my historical novel-in-progress, <em>The Relentless Harvest<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Search for a Character<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It all started with a desire to raise the level of conversation in the lumber camp scenes set in 19th century <a href=\"http:\/\/keith-skinner.com\/albion-petri-dish-of-the-california-lumber-boom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albion, California<\/a>. Much of the dialogue I had written for those scenes featured hardened men with little or no education, men who generally were aware of little else than life in camp. I considered tossing a writer into their midst but quickly discounted the idea. I needed someone who would interact with and leave an impression on the men, someone who would ignite their imaginations. A writer would only isolate himself and would be unable to share his work with the largely illiterate loggers. Then I remembered all the vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lithography\" target=\"_blank\">lithographs<\/a> and drawings I had examined for my <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a> scenes. What if an artist came to the woods to chronicle the emerging lumber industry?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/keith-skinner.com\/finding-grafton-tyler-brown\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist Keith Skinner: Writer: Renegade Image: Fiction, memoir, travel &amp; essays 2014-05-25 Keith Skinner I had never heard of Grafton Tyler Brown before. I was just trying to develop a character for my historical novel-in-progress, The Relentless Harvest. The Search for a Character It all started with a desire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,1196,8,20],"tags":[16524,19603,19602],"class_list":["post-40413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-grafton-tyler-brown","tag-keith-skinner","tag-keith-skinner-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}