George Elmer Browne

George Elmer Browne (1871–1946) was an American player known in France and Massachusetts.

Browne was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He studied in Boston at the Cowles Art School and the Museum of Fine Arts previously completing his education below Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury in Paris. He founded the West stop School of Art at his summer house in Provincetown in 1916 at the tip of Cape Cod far afield from his studio in New York. The organization was influenced by the impressionists and was among five schools in the town. Browne was very competently regarded in France and became a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Browne has action in Provincetown Museum. In 1919, Browne was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member, and became a full zealot in 1928.

Daisy Marguerite Hughes was along with Browne's pupils.

Browne died in Provincetown.

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