Franklin Brownell RCA (born Peleg Franklin Brownell,[1][2][3] also known as Franklin Peleg Brownell) (July 27, 1857 – March 13, 1946) born in New Bedford, Massachusetts was a landscape painter, draughtsman and teacher active in Canada. He artistic career in Ottawa spanned over fifty years.[4]

Franklin Brownell
Franklin Brownell – Peche sur glace, collines de la Gatineau, 1915
Born	Peleg Franklin Brownell (1857-07-27)July 27, 1857 New Bedford, Massachusetts
Died	March 13, 1946(1946-03-13) (aged 88) Ottawa
Nationality	American-born Canadian
Education	Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Académie Julian
Known for	Painter
Spouse	Louise Nickerson (m. 1889)

Biography

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.[5] 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.[6] 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, watercolour and pastel.[1] 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.[7]

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.[8]
• 1924–25, British Empire Exhibition, 1924–25

Collections

• National Gallery of Canada[9]
• Winnipeg Art Gallery[10]
• Musée d’Orsay[11]

References

Further reading

• Burant, James; Stacey, Robert H. (1998). North by South : the art of Peleg Franklin Brownell, 1857–1946 = Du Nord et du Sud : l'art de Peleg Franklin Brownell, 1857–1946. Ottawa: Ottawa Art Gallery. ISBN 1-895108-49-7Catalogue of a retrospective exhibition held at the Ottawa Art Gallery, July 16 to September 13, 1998.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Burant, Jim (2022). Ottawa Art & Artists: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Art Canada Institute. ISBN 978-1-4871-0289-0.

External links

• Franklin Brownell on klinkhoff.ca
• Valentin Gallery: Edmond Dyonnet Franklin Brownell Biography

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