Name/Title
Vermont SceneEntry/Object ID
1958.1.1570Description
Landscape painting depicting a meadow in the foreground with a clump of trees and shrubbery by a brook on the left. There is a road leading across the center horizontally to another group of trees covered in fall foliage.Type of Painting
EaselContext
Horace Brown was born in Chicago, 1876, and died in New York City on Good Friday, 1949. He graduated from Yale with the class of 1900. After a brief unhappy period as an officer in the family business, he devoted himself to the study of art and landscape painting around the year 1906, winning occasional prizes and exhibiting widely in the East. His paintings form part of the permanent collections of the Springfield (MA) Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1914 he married Caroline H. Clement, daughter of former Vermont Governor, Percival H. Clement, and made "North Mowing" in Springfield, Vermont, his residence. This property had been built by his great grandfather in 1790, and has remained in the family since that time. He was one of the founders of the Southern Vermont Artists Association in Manchester, Vermont, and served on numerous local committees in Springfield. His interest in restricting billboards caused him to enter politics with the view of interesting the state legislature to pass restrictive laws against this menace. He served in the 1939 Assembly, representing the town of Springfield. His wife predeceased him in 1945. They had no children.Acquisition
Accession
1958.1Source or Donor
Rugg, Harold Goddard (1883-1957)Acquisition Method
BequestMade/Created
Artist
Brown, Horace (1876-1949)Date made
1930Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
PaintingNomenclature Class
ArtNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Brown, Horace (1876-1949)