Miscellaneous biographical information The Bulletin: Centennial Edition U. S. Coast Guard Academy: The First 100 Years The familiar historical murals in this library were painted as a Treasury Art Project by Aldis Browne, a graduate of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Admiral Perkins recalls that Browne and the Superintendent, then CAPT E. E. Jones, had their differences. On one occasion Browne, who happened to be a dwarf, rose to his full four feet and threatened to paint Jones' face on the figure of a smuggler in one of the murals. **** The Bulletin August 2005 Aldis Browne was born Aug 2, 1907 in Washington, D.C. and died May 7, 1981 in Davenport, FL. For most of his life, he was a resident of Essex, Connecticut. In 1928, he entered the Yale School of Fine Arts, studying under Taylor, Savage and York. Browne received a bachelor of fine arts degree BFA from Yale in 1934. Browne worked under the PWAP as well as TRAP, completing two panels for the Fairhaven Junior High School in collaboration with artist Vincent Mondo. His interests were in water color, imaginative composition, and decoration. His further work includes portraits which have been carried out in various mediums, and a Post Office mural in Oneonta, Alabama. In 1939 at age 32 Browne painted the International Ice Patrol in action from the decks of USCGC Tahoe and USCGC Pontchartrain. Five of his watercolors were published along with a description of the Ice Patrol in Life magazine, January 1, 1940. See the manuscript of the entire article. **** http://www.georgeglazer.com/archives/prints/landscape/brownelight.html Aldis B. Browne II was a painter, portraitist and muralist, born in Washington, D.C. He studied at Westminster College and the Yale University School of Fine Arts. During the 1930s he exhibited at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and the Wadsworth Atheneum. He also participated in the WPA Federal Arts Project in the Thirties, painting murals at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and the U.S. Post Office in Oneonta, Alabama. **** Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985, p. 83. Browne, Aldis B., II [P] Essex, CT. b. 2 Ag 1907, Wash D.C. Studied: Westminster Col.; Yale. Exhibited: BAID, 1932-34 (med); Wadsworth Atheneum; 48 Sts. Comp., 1939. Work: murals, U.S. Coast Guard Acad.; USPO, Oneonta, Ala. [47]
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