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Raymond Brown was a prolific illustrator whose career expanded for over 30 years. Born in California, he was also a conservative, quiet family man. Raymond Brown attended art classes all throughout his high school years and only attended art school for six months due to his father’s sudden death. He worked as a production artist in the comic strip industry in order to support his family, and two years later, thanks to his perseverance and skill to draw planes, Raymond Brown was hired as a technical illustrator by North American Aviation. His wife, Mary Louise Tejeda, a fellow illustrator who also worked for NAA and with whom he became father to eight children was a great supporter sometimes posing as model for many of his assignments. Brown would also use his children as well as himself as models in many other opportunities. Soon after WWII ended, Raymond Brown moved to NY, where he worked as a freelance illustrator for a little over four years. During that time, Brown illustrated about 40 paperback covers and nearly 200 magazine covers. Once he grew disenchanted with the publication industry, Brown returned to California, and for a short period of time worked again for NAA in additionto starting his teaching career at Art Center; where he taught figure drawing for over 26 years, and many of his students have become established Art Directors, recognized Sculptors and admired Architects, in addition to famous fellow Illustrators such as Drew Struzan. Soon after becoming an Art instructor, Raymond Brown was presented with the opportunity to illustrate a movie poster, and thus, Raymond Brown began his impressive movie poster career that covers over 300 movie posters in total. By the early 70s, once his children had become adults, Brown quit illustrating movie posters in part due to his dissatisfaction with the type of explicit material he was requested to produce. Thanks to the encouragement of his wife, Raymond Brown started to paint Western Art, his paintings -which sum up to about 600 in total- continue selling very well. Despite becoming very fragile due to a severe stroke that limited his sight as well as the left side of his brain in the mid 70s, Brown continued to paint with his right hand. (He was born somewhat ambidextrous and Dyslexic) He died in Nebraska in 1991 and all of his work, both commercial and none commercial, depicts his very strong sense of adventure, real qualities of a natural born story teller.