He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and also with Robert Henri in New York.
He is considered a member of the Ashcan School, and his public commissions include Fruit Pickers, a 1940 mural in the city hall of Redlands, California showing four Native American farm workers.
[2] Brasz died at his home in Glendale, California on April 1, 1966.
The auction record for a painting by Arnold Franz Brasz is $31,070.
This record was set by At the Big Top, a 23 by 29.7 inch oil painting on canvas sold May 4, 2006 at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers (Milford, Connecticut).