Arthur M. Brown was born in 1856 in Iowa. He settled in St. Joseph, Missouri, and worked from the 1880s-1890s with Rudolph Uhlman, a photographer, as a photographic retoucher. Starting in 1900, Brown worked as a photographer owning a photography studio with William Hassebroek called Brown & Hassebroek that was the successor of the Lewis Studio. It was active until 1903 when Brown left to set up his own photography studio that was located at several locations in St. Joseph until he moved in 1908. He died on July 11, 1921 in Ohio.
Artist clippings file is available at:
“Brown & Hassebroek,” St. Joseph Gazette (St. Joseph, Missouri), September 7, 1900.
“Photographers,” St. Joseph News-Press (St. Joseph, Missouri), April 17, 1903.
“Arthur M. Brown,” The Catholic Tribune (St. Joseph, Missouri), November 28, 1903.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1882; 1887-1890; 1894-1896; 1898; 1901-1902; 1904-1908, Ancestry, accessed October 12, 2021.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1886.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1885.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1884.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1883.
“Arthur M. Brown,” Find A Grave, accessed October 12, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182868619/arthur-m.-brown.
“1900 United States Federal Census for Arthur M Brown,” Ancestry, accessed October 12, 2021.
Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.
Amanda Harlan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Published on October 12, 2021
Artist clippings file is available at:
“Brown & Hassebroek,” St. Joseph Gazette (St. Joseph, Missouri), September 7, 1900.
“Photographers,” St. Joseph News-Press (St. Joseph, Missouri), April 17, 1903.
“Arthur M. Brown,” The Catholic Tribune (St. Joseph, Missouri), November 28, 1903.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1882; 1887-1890; 1894-1896; 1898; 1901-1902; 1904-1908, Ancestry, accessed October 12, 2021.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1886.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1885.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1884.
St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directory, 1883.
“Arthur M. Brown,” Find A Grave, accessed October 12, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/182868619/arthur-m.-brown.
“1900 United States Federal Census for Arthur M Brown,” Ancestry, accessed October 12, 2021.
Sam Blain, “Research on Missouri Artists,” five binders of documented Missouri artists.
Amanda Harlan, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Published on October 12, 2021
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Harlan, Amanda. "Arthur M. Brown." In Missouri Remembers: Artists in Missouri through 1951. Kansas City: The Kansas City Art Institute and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; St. Louis: The St. Louis Public Library, 2021,https://doi.org/10.37764/5776.