Alice Dalton Brown was born in Danville, Pennsylvania in 1939 and grew up in Ithaca, New York. She studied language and literature in France and liberal arts at Cornell University and Oberlin College. After graduating in 1962 from Oberlin with a BA in studio art she returned with her husband to live in rural upstate New York. There, while experimenting with various artistic styles, studying Joseph Albers’ color theories, and raising a family, she developed what would become her lifelong work of using the observed world, photographs, and memory to create images which express her ideas. After moving to New York City in 1970, her work found a wider audience and has been exhibited internationally, with over 30 one-person exhibitions in New York City, elsewhere in the United States and abroad, most recently in Seoul, South Korea. Her work is included in many private, public, and corporate collections, including the American Express Corporation, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.