Bolton Coit Brown, born in 1864, was founder of the art department at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and subsequently became one of the founders in 1903 of the Woodstock Art Colony in New York. He was Chairman of Stanford University's Department of Drawing and Painting (1891-1902) until chastised for using nude models. In 1902, Brown ran afoul of Jane Stanford's inability to deal with nude models posing in his advanced life-drawing class at the University. She ordered segregation of the class by sex, then changed her dictum to halt the use of nude models entirely at which point Brown resigned. He exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City. He primarily engaged in printmaking, though some of his works are paintings. He excelled as a lithographer, working with George Bellows, John Sloan and Rockwell Kent. Bolton Brown was an artist interested as much, or perhaps more in the techniques and development of media as he was in putting them to creative use. He taught himself lithography when he was fifty, during time spent in England from1915-1916, in hopes of creating a rebirth in America of that medium. He developed fifty techniques for preparing lithography stones and invented formulas for more than five hundred lithographic crayons. He also wrote two books on the subject. Brown spent the next ten years involved with lithography, his expertise aiding artists like Rockwell Kent, Arthur B. Davies and George Bellows. There is an extensive collection of sixty-four drawings and lithographs by Bolton Brown at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York; as well as nine lithographs in the collection of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.