A Californian Voice: The Life and Art of Benjamin Chambers Brown Benjamin Chambers Brown, born in Marion, Arkansas in 1865, emerged as a pivotal figure in the blossoming California Impressionist movement. His journey from aspiring lawyer to celebrated landscape painter is a testament to the power of artistic calling and the allure of the American West. Though initially steered toward a legal career by his parents – Judge Benjamin Chambers Brown and Mary Broker Brown – young Benjamin found himself drawn to the burgeoning field of photography, an early indication of his keen eye for compositio…