exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1915, 1917, and 1918. He showed a group exhibition there in 1929. His work also appeared at the Oakland Art Gallery in 1932. His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics. Awards Brown received many awards, including the bronze medal from the Portland Expo in 1905. He won a bronze medal in etching at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Diego in 1915, where he never won silver and gold medals as well. Later life and legacy By 1925, Brown's health was declining. Therefore, the amount of art he could continue to produce declined. In 1929, he had an abscessed tooth and lost a lot of weight because it was too painful to eat. This ailment impeded his painting. Although his health did improve in the 1930s, He served as the president of the California Society of Printmakes until 1929. Brown died of pneumonia on January 19, 1942, in Pasadena. Brown's works are held by the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, Oakland Museum of California, the Los Angeles, California Municipal Art Collection, the Montclair, New Jersey Museum, the Cleveland, Ohio Museum, the Boise, Idaho Public Library, and other public libraries throughout the country. He is remembered as one of the first artists to paint in Pasadena. References External links Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture California Art Club Benjamin Chambers Brown letter at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University List of Brown's paintings 1865 births 1942 deaths Deaths from pneumonia in California People from Marion, Arkansas Académie Julian alumni University of Tennessee alumni Artists from Arkansas American landscape painters 19th-century American painters American male painters 20th-century American painters 19th-century American male artists Olympic competitors in art competitions Artists from Pasadena, California 20th-century American male artists