William Mason Brown painted fruit close enough to reach for, and that plain love of a ripe cherry or a cluster of raspberries is what carries his work so well into counted cross stitch.
He was an American painter, born in 1828 and died in 1898, and he is remembered for two strands of work that sit side by side. One is still life, fruit set down in the open air rather than on a polished table, berries among leaves and moss. The other is landscape, forests turning in autumn and the long view across the Blue Mountains in October. Beyond the paintings themselves, Brown is not a name the art histories say much about, which seems a shame for someone who looked at ordinary things so closely.
Other nineteenth-century painters: Walter Moras and Adolf Kaufmann.
If it is the painting itself you love rather than the stitching, William Mason Brown art prints are easy to find.
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