Background
Brown, Roy was born on April 7, 1879 in Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Henry and Mollie (Ellis) Brown.
Brown, Roy was born on April 7, 1879 in Decatur, Illinois, United States. Son of Charles Henry and Mollie (Ellis) Brown.
Education high school, Decatur studied art at Art Students’ League, New York, and Julian Academy, Paris. Pupil of Jean Paul Laurens, Rene Menard and Rafaëlli.
Awarded prize and medal National Arts Club. New York; Isador water color prize, Salmagundi Club. Peabody-Baltimore water color prize for group.
2d prize, silver medal, Philadelphia Art Week.
Ranger Fund purchase prize, National Academy of Design, 1921. Samuel T. Shaw purchase prize ($1,000), 1925.
2d Altman prize for landscape. North.A Doctorate., 1926; Salmagundi Club purchase prize, $1,000, 1930.
National Arts Club prize for painting, 1936.
American Water Color Society medal, 1937, 1943. Samuel T. Shaw water color prize Salmagundi Club, 1938. Represented in Metropolitan Museum, New New York
Art Institute, Chicago.
National Arts Club, New New York Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois.
Art Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Art Institute of Chicago, Decatur, Illinois.
Hackley Art Gallery, Muskegon, Michigan.
John Herron Artist Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana. The Art Institute of Chicago, Springfield, Illinois North.A., 1926.
Member (life) New York History Society of America Water Color Society (president 1939-1944, and 1939-1949), 1st vice president National Academy Design, since April 1949.
Member (life) New York History Society of America Water Color Society (president 1939-1944, and 1939-1949), 1st vice president National Academy Design, since April 1949. Member New York Water Color. Clubs: Century, National Arts, Salmagundi (New York).
Married Grace G. Lockett.