Atheneum with Raking Light

Alice Dalton Brown (born April 17, 1939) is an American painter known for realist works that capture the light and texture of specific, if often invented, places and moments. Her signature motifs include exteriors of Victorian houses, barns and waterscapes viewed through windows or sheer curtains, by which she explores the play of light, shadow, reflection and geometry across various surfaces.​ Critic J. Bowyer Bell wrote of Dalton Brown's style, "her realist works are more than the sum of their parts. In fact, there are so many parts so cunningly included, so many skills on display, that the result is almost an encyclopedia of what can be done."

Dalton Brown has exhibited at institutions including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art​, Butler Institute of American Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Albright-Knox Museum, and McNay Art Museum. She has been recognized by the American Academy in Rome and her work belongs to the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,​ Johnson Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and Tampa Museum of Art, among others. After being based in New York City for over three decades, Dalton Brown splits time between Peekskill, New York and the state's Finger Lakes region, at Cayuga Lake.