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George
Elmer Browne, a popular American Impressionist of the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts,
in 1871, After studying at the Museum of Fine Arts and the Cowles
School of Art in Boston, Browne traveled to Paris and attended
the Academie Julian as a student of Jules Lefevbre and Tony
Robert-Fleury.
Returning to the US, he set up a studio in New York City. Summers
were spent at Provincetown, Massachusetts. Highly regarded in
France, Browne was named Officer of Public Instruction and Fine
Arts, and made Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 1926.
He died in Provincetown in 1946.
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