[1] He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1925 to 1928 with many well known artists including Charles Courtney Curran, Ivan Olinsky, Alice Murphy and Robert Aitkin.

[3] In 1935 Browne studied with the abstract expressionist painter and teacher Hans Hoffman.

[2] He created murals under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration for the Chronic Disease Hospital and the 1939 New York World's Fair.

[4] Near the end of his life Browne was very active in the Provincetown, Massachusetts art colony.

The gathering consisted roughly of Byron Browne, Gertrude and Balcomb Greene, Harry Holtzman, George McNeil, Albert Swiden, Lassaw, Burgoyne Diller, and myself.