- Created by
- Brown, Grafton Tyler, American, 1841 - 1918
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- H x W (unframed): 16 1/8 × 26 × 1 in. (41 × 66 × 2.5 cm)
- H x W x D (frame): 23 9/16 × 33 3/8 × 2 3/4 in. (59.8 × 84.7 × 7 cm)
- Caption
- Prior to becoming a painter, Grafton Tyler Brown was a lithographer, cartographer, draftsman, and business owner of print firm G. T. Brown & Co. in San Francisco. In 1879 Brown sold his business and in 1882 moved from the Bay Area to Victoria, British Columbia, where he joined a geological survey party.
- Brown believed that the landscape of the western Canadian province could "challenge the world for magnificent and picturesque scenery." View of Lake Okanagan was part of a series of watercolor and oil paintings drawn from this experience. Positively received, Brown’s paintings garnered the following commentary in The Daily British Colonist: "the exquisite tints of autumn on the foliage … give the landscapes a rich warm coloring that must be seen to be appreciated."
- Description
- This is an oil painting of a landscape showing a lake in a valley. Surrounded by pine trees, rolling hills, and mountains, the lake stretches from the lower left corner of the scene to its disappearing point slightly right of the center scene. To the right of the lake shore are fields, crossed by a wooden fence, along which are two haystacks. There are clusters of pine trees in the foreground and at intervals along the lake shore. More trees and wooded hills are visible in the distance. The painting is signed by the artist in the lower left corner "G.T. Brown."
- Place depicted
- British Columbia, Canada, North and Central America
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- oil paintings
- Topic
- Art
- Nature
- Rural life
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Curtis E. Ransom in memory of Julia Turner Ransom
- Object number
- 2012.161ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




