Gordon Harold Brown (born 1931) is a New Zealand art historian, curator, and artist.

Brown moved to Auckland in 1964 and was initially Librarian-in-charge at the Elam School of Fine Arts library.

The new edition sparked a heated argument spearheaded by art historian Dr. Francis Pound in his book Frames on the Land.

[23] In 1980 Brown was awarded the OBE for services to art history[24] and in 2002 an Honorary Doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington.

The university also inaugurated the Gordon H Brown lecture series to ‘further art historical scholarship in New Zealand’ in the same year.