Thomas E. Brown

American (1881-1938)

Thomas E. Brown (1881-1938) was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and began studying art at the Corcoran School of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of Art. He also worked under American artists Fred Wagner, Edgar Nye, and William Lester Stevens. Brown settled in the Washington, DC area to enter government service and became very involved in the leadership of many local art organizations, including the Washington Watercolor Club and the Society of Washington Artists. He exhibited at a number of venues in the late 1920s and, in 1933, retired from the National Park Service and left Washington for Williamsburg, Virginia, where he participated in the restoration of the colonial town.