{"id":56372,"date":"2018-05-10T17:36:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56372"},"modified":"2018-05-10T17:39:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:39:56","slug":"museum-buys-1882-painting-by-african-american-artist-who-worked-in-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56372","title":{"rendered":"Museum buys 1882 painting by African-American artist who worked in Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/local\/museum-buys-1882-painting-by-african-american-artist-who-worked-in-victoria-1.23278002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Museum buys 1882 painting by African-American artist who worked in Victoria<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Times Colonist<\/a><br \/>\nVictoria, British Columbia, Canada<br \/>\n2018-04-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LouiseDicksonTC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Louise Dickson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"550\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/local\/museum-buys-1882-painting-by-african-american-artist-who-worked-in-victoria-1.23278002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.glaciermedia.ca\/polopoly_fs\/1.23278056.1524549490!\/fileImage\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_804\/giants-castle-mtn000117-jpg.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><em>Giant&#8217;s Castle Mountain: A.L. Fortune Farm, Enderby B.C. Oct. 6, 1882<\/em>, painted by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grafton_Tyler_Brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grafton Tyler Brown<\/a> while he was living in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria,_British_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victoria<\/a>.<br \/>\nPhotograph By via Royal B.C. Museum<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/royalbcmuseum.bc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal B.C. Museum<\/a> has purchased an major landscape painting by 19th-century African-American artist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grafton_Tyler_Brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grafton Tyler Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The painting \u2014 <em>Giant\u2019s Castle Mountain: A.L. Fortune Farm, Enderby B.C. Oct. 6, 1882<\/em> \u2014 is considered by University of Victoria history professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvic.ca\/humanities\/history\/people\/faculty\/lutzjohn.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Lutz<\/a> to be the most important of Brown\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B.C.<\/a> paintings. The painting, bought for $44,000 from Uno Langmann Fine Art Ltd. in March, shows Alexander Leslie Fortune\u2019s farmstead on the edge of a forest. The agrarian foreground is dwarfed by a looming mountain.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal B.C. Museum holds the greatest number and most significant of Brown\u2019s Canadian works. <em>Giant\u2019s Castle Mountain<\/em> is considered to be a work of artistic and historical significance to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Columbians<\/a>. It was painted in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victoria,_British_Columbia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victoria<\/a> after Brown visited the southern Interior&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/news\/local\/museum-buys-1882-painting-by-african-american-artist-who-worked-in-victoria-1.23278002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal B.C. Museum has purchased an major landscape painting by 19th-century African-American artist Grafton Tyler Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,19,8],"tags":[2138,16524,26395,28617,28618,28619,28616,16387,5336],"class_list":["post-56372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-canada","category-media-archive","tag-british-columbia","tag-grafton-tyler-brown","tag-john-lutz","tag-louise-dickson","tag-royal-b-c-museum","tag-royal-british-columbia-museum","tag-the-times-colonist","tag-times-colonist","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56372","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=56372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56373,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56372\/revisions\/56373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}