Belmore
Browne
This painting
depicts American Alpine Club past president Henry S. Hall,
Jr.’s and party’s first ascent of Mount Tiedeman in
the Coast Range Mountains. It was donated to the AAC by
Hall’s daughter, Edith Overly. The AAC Library was named
for Mr. Hall in 1994. Mr. Hall wrote an article about the
journey in the 1933 American
Alpine Journal.
The artist, Belmore Browne, studied at the New York
School of Art and the Academie Julian in Paris. From the
website cited below: “As famous in the annals of
mountaineering as he is as an artist, his best-known and
most widely collected paintings are of Alaska, Washington,
California, and the Canadian Rockies. His paintings of
animals and landscapes combine the attention to
naturalistic detail of a naturalist and mountaineer with a
bold, expressive painterly touch…. He painted notable
examples for the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History,
Boston Museum of Science, and the American Museum of
Natural History.” More information about Browne is
available at http://belmorebrowne.com.
About the
Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum (www.bwamm.org)
Opened in 2008, the Bradford Washburn American
Mountaineering Museum is devoted to the stories of
mountains and mountaineers and is the only museum of its
type in the United States.
About The
American Alpine Club (www.americanalpineclub.org)
Founded in 1902, the not-for-profit American Alpine
Club is the national organization devoted to climbing, its
community, the conservation of the climbing environment,
and the appreciation for climbing history. The AAC’s
world-renowned American Alpine Club Library, founded in
1916, is one of the oldest and most complete alpine
research facilities in the United States.
