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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">April 23, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum purchases painting by
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<strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">19<sup>th</sup> century African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">VICTORIA, BC–</span></strong><a name="OLE_LINK5"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55";font-weight:normal">The
Royal BC Museum has acquired an important landscape painting, a work of artistic and historical significance to British Columbians.</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">With the recent purchase of<i> Giant’s Castle Mountain: A. L. Fortune Farm, Enderby, BC Oct 6, 1882</i>, the Royal BC Museum now holds the greatest number and most
significant of Grafton Tyler Brown’s Canadian works in the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">“We hope that the painting’s subject matter and history will lead to significant, perhaps challenging, conversations about the history of settlers in BC—including
immigrants like Brown,” said, Prof. Jack Lohman, CEO of the Royal BC Museum. “It’s a focal point for discussing ethnicity and identity, and also allows us probe the relationship between landscape paintings, nature and the presence of humans.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Grafton Tyler Brown (1841-1918) was a painter, lithographer and cartographer, the first African American artist to create works depicting the Pacific Northwest,
California and British Columbia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">In 1883, he made 22 paintings of BC in his Victoria studio, based on drawings made during a geological survey into the southern interior of the province.
<i>Giant’s Castle Mountain</i> is one such product of the expedition. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The painting depicts Fortune’s farmstead on the edge of a forest, the agrarian foreground dwarfed by a looming mountain.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Dr. John Lutz of the University of Victoria, a Brown authority, has deemed this work the most important of Brown’s BC paintings. Lutz provides historical context
for Fortune’s ranch, noting that Fortune was “a major historical figure in the Okanagan as well as one of the Overlanders in1862.” The Overlanders were a group of adventurers who walked from the Prairies—over the Rocky Mountains—to the Cariboo goldfields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">Fortune was one of the first Caucasian settlers in the North Okanagan region to pre-empt land near what became Enderby. (“Pre-emption” was a method of acquiring
provincial Crown land for settlement and agriculture; the BC Archives holds a research guide about BC pre-emption records:
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/assets/Pre-emptions_homesteads_quick_guide.pdf"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">https://royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/assets/Pre-emptions_homesteads_quick_guide.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">.)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The BC Archives already holds in its collection Brown’s BC catalogue and a rare portrait. Only 10 of Brown’s other Canadian works are accounted for in public and
private collections. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum purchased the painting in March, 2018, for $44,000 from Uno Langmann Fine Art Ltd., with funds from the Royal BC Museum Foundation and additional
financial support from the Friends of the BC Archives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">About the Royal BC Museum<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="xbodytext" style="margin-top:.1pt;background:white"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Univers LT Pro 55"">The Royal BC Museum explores the province’s human history and natural history, advances new knowledge and understanding of BC, and provides
a dynamic forum for discussion and a place for reflection. The museum and archives celebrate culture and history, telling the stories of BC in ways that enlighten, stimulate and inspire. Located in Victoria on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees
and Xwsepsum Nations), we are a hub of community connections in BC–onsite, offsite and online–taking pride in our collective histories.
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