Attributed to George Elmer Browne, American, 1871 to 1946, oil painting on canvas depicting a river forest landscape. Signed, Elmer, lower right. Framed. Provenance: Findlay Galleries Inc., Chicago. An original paper label is on the backside. George Elmer Browne was an American artist known in France and Massachusetts. Browne was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He studied in Boston at the Cowles Art School and the Museum of Fine Arts before completing his education under Jules Lefebvre and Tony Robert Fleury in Paris. He founded the West End School of Art at his summer home in Provincetown in 1916 at the tip of Cape Cod far away from his studio in New York. The group was influenced by the impressionists and was among five schools in the town. One of a kind artwork.