Brown, Harold Haven
Harold Haven Brown (June 6, 1869 - April 7, 1932) was an American artist, cartographer, illustrator, teacher, painter, and museum director. Born in Malden, Massachusetts, Brown attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School before heading to Paris, France, to study with Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts and with J.P. Laurens at the Académie Julian. Brown also spent significant time studying museum work at the Louvre, the Musée de Cluny, and the Musée du Luxembourg. He married fellow artist Florence Bradshaw on November 4, 1897. The couple lived in Chicago and then Indianapolis, where Brown served as director of the John Heron Institute from 1913 to 1921. They then moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1923. Brown was a noted mapmaker and also created woodcuts and watercolors. He also wrote books and articles on calligraphy and on decorative, pictorial, and mechanical drawing. He and Florence played an important role in founding the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Brown served as its president from 1926 until he died in 1932. He and Florence had two children.
Holy Land: From Exodus to the age of steam.
The Picture Map of the Holy Land.
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This is Harold Haven Brown's 1928 chromolithograph pictorial map of the Holy Land, combining biblical geography with illustrated cities, ancient trade routes, and modern railways. Coverage encompasses present-day Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Sinai Peninsula, and adjoining parts of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. From the Israelites' wanderings to steamships navigating the Suez Canal ot the Hejaz Railway, Brown presents the region as a landscape of overlapping histories. (more details)