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Arthur William Brown

Arthur William Brown (1881 - 1966) was active/lived in New York, Ontario / Canada.  Arthur Brown is known for Magazine story art illustration.

Arthur William Brown /
A W Brown
(1881 - 1966)

"Brownie," as his artist friends called him, epitomizes the rule of "90% of life is just showing up." A Canadian school drop out, he worked on a steamer, sketching in his spare time (he sold these to newspapers).

Saving his earnings, he enrolled at the Art Student's League and studied under Walter Appleton Clark, F W DuMond, and FR Gruger. When a friend got a job from the Saturday Evening Post to cover a circus, Brownie went along. The Post liked the article AND Brown's circus drawings, which bought them, a relationship between publisher and artist that lasted 40-years.

Brown's pencils appeared in most Post issues from the teens on. He concentrated on story art (no covers) for Collier's, College Humor, Redbook, and Cosmopolitan.

He also contributed posters for the WWI effort and book art for books (The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, The Fortune Hunter, The Uppe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1805 characters.]  Artist bio

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