Franklin Brownell
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Franklin Brownell
| image = Franklin Brownell, R.C.A. (I0007800).jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Peleg Franklin Brownell
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1857|07|27}}
| birth_place = New Bedford, Massachusetts
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|03|13|1857|07|27}}
| death_place = Ottawa
| nationality = American-born Canadian
| field = Painter
| training = Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Académie Julian
| movement =
| works =
|spouse = Louise Nickerson (m. 1889)
}}
Franklin Brownell {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (born Peleg Franklin Brownell,{{cite web |last1=Stacey |first1=Robert |title=Peleg Franklin Brownell |date=March 4, 2015|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peleg-franklin-brownell |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca |publisher=The Canadian Encyclopedia |accessdate=April 22, 2020}}{{cite web |title=Brownell, Franklin (Peleg Franklin), 1856 or 1857–1946 |date=March 15, 2013|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93012890.html |website=www.loc.gov |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate=April 22, 2020}}{{cite book |title=Franklin Brownell : clippings file : Biographical Form 1920 |url=http://library.gallery.ca/record=b1225241~S4.( |date=2017|website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |accessdate=April 22, 2020}} also known as Franklin Peleg Brownell) (July 27, 1857 – March 13, 1946) was a landscape painter, draughtsman and teacher active in Canada. His artistic career in Ottawa spanned over fifty years.{{Cite book |last=Burant |first=Jim |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ottawa-art-and-artists/key-artists/franklin-brownell/ |title=Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-4871-0289-0 |language=English}}
Biography
File:Franklin Brownell - Peche sur glace, collines de la Gatineau, 1915.jpg
Brownell studied at the Boston Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1879 and at the Académie Julian in Paris from 1880 to 1883 with William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Tony Robert-Fleury and Léon Bonnat. There he met fellow expatriate and Canadian painter William Brymner.
After spending some time in Montreal, Brownell moved to Ottawa in 1886 to take up the position of Headmaster of the Ottawa School of Art until 1900. He accepted the same position as headmaster between 1900 and 1937 with the Women's Art Association in Ottawa, later renamed the Art Association of Ottawa.{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00027322|publisher=oxfordindex.oup.com|title=Brownell, Franklin Peleg (1856–1946), Painter : Benezit Dictionary of Artists|accessdate=November 20, 2016|archive-date=November 21, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121045715/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00027322|url-status=dead}}
Among his students were Pegi Nicol MacLeod, Henri Masson and Robert Tait McKenzie.
Brownell was elected a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1895, and the Ontario Society of Artists in 1899. He was also a founding member of the Canadian Art Club in Toronto in 1907. Through the club, he became friendly with Maurice Cullen and James Wilson Morrice. As a result, his palette began to lighten. His most impressionist paintings were painted on several trips to the West Indies between 1911 and 1915.{{cite book|last=Prakash |first=A.K. |title=Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery |location=Stuttgart |publisher=Arnoldsche Art Publishers |date=2015 |pages=398–417 |isbn=978-3-89790-427-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J-ZvrgEACAAJ}} Other painting trips he took were to the Gaspé and Gatineau regions of Quebec, to Algonquin Provincial Park and other areas around Ottawa in Ontario.
Besides landscapes, he produced portraits, flower studies, marine and genre scenes in [[Oil painting|
oil]], watercolour and pastel. Though celebrated as an Impressionist, Brownell also created social realist depictions of the city, demonstrating a sensitivity to urban concerns that was rare among his contemporaries.{{Cite book |last=Burant |first=Jim |url=https://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ottawa-art-and-artists/key-artists/franklin-brownell/ |title=Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-4871-0289-0 |location=Toronto |language=English}}
Exhibitions
- 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition
- 1900 he won a bronze medal at the Paris World's Fair exhibition for The Photographer
- 1904, Canadian exhibition at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis,
- In 1922, he was honored with a retrospective exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Canada. He was the first artist to receive this honor.{{cite journal |last1=Mainprize |first1=Garry |title=The National Gallery of Canada: A Hundred Years of Exhibitions — List and Index — |journal=RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review |date=1984 |volume=11 |issue=1/2 |page=12 |jstor=42631016 }}
- 1924–25, British Empire Exhibition, 1924–25
- 1998, North by South: The Art of Peleg Franklin Brownell, major retrospective at the Ottawa Art Gallery{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://oaggao.ca/whats-on/exhibition-archive |website=oaggao.ca |publisher=Ottawa Art Gallery |access-date=3 July 2023}}
Collections
- National Gallery of Canada[https://www.gallery.ca/search/node/Franklin%20Brownell Musée des beaux-arts du Canada] accessdate November 20, 2016
- Winnipeg Art Gallery{{cite web|url=http://wag.ca/art/art-search/display,result/54375|publisher=wag.ca|title=Art Search | Winnipeg Art Gallery|accessdate=November 20, 2016|archive-date=August 1, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801114746/http://wag.ca/art/art-search/display,result/54375|url-status=dead}}
- Musée d’Orsay{{cite web|url=http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/espace-professionnels/professionnels/chercheurs/rech-rec-art-home/notice-artiste.html?nnumid=114421|publisher=musee-orsay.fr|title=Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Artiste n° 114421 Franklin Brownell |accessdate=November 20, 2016}}
Record sale prices
At the June 8 2023 Cowley Abbott Auction Artwork from an Important Private Collection - Part II, Tea Time (1901), oil on canvas laid on board, 15.5 x 11.5 ins ( 39.4 x 29.2 cms ), Auction Estimate: $12,000.00 - $15,000.00, realized a price of $90,000.00.{{cite web |title=Article |url=https://cowleyabbott.ca/artwork/AW42543 |website=cowleyabbott.ca |publisher=Cowley Abbott Auction |access-date=4 July 2023}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book
|last1=Burant
|first1=James
|last2=Stacey
|first2=Robert H.
|title=North by South : the art of Peleg Franklin Brownell, 1857–1946 = Du Nord et du Sud : l'art de Peleg Franklin Brownell, 1857–1946.
|date=1998
|publisher=Ottawa Art Gallery
|location=Ottawa
|isbn=1-895108-49-7
|url=https://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?2164437&uuid=17bf8ada-9b05-451f-97ab-0caa5229a8ae
|postscript= Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition held at the Ottawa Art Gallery, July 16 to September 13, 1998.
}}
- {{Cite book |last=Burant |first=Jim |title=Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History |publisher=Art Canada Institute |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-4871-0289-0 |location=Toronto |language=English}}
External links
- [http://www.klinkhoff.ca/search/?search=Franklin+Brownell Franklin Brownell on klinkhoff.ca]
- Valentin Gallery: [http://www.galerievalentin.com/contemporary-artists/franklin-brownell/biography.php Edmond Dyonnet Franklin Brownell Biography]
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