Brown, Rudd, 2001-05-12

Congressional candidate in 1958 and 1960 from California, Helen (Rudd) Brown is the granddaughter of William Jennings Bryan (three-time candidate for President and Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson) and the daughter of Ruth Bryan Owen, who was the first woman elected to Congress in the South, serving as Representative from Florida from 1928 to 1932. Brown moved to California in 1954 where she became active in the Democratic Party and served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention during the 1960s. She was appointed as division chief in the U. S. Department of Parks and Recreation, where she remained until 1980. Brown met O'Keeffe in the spring of 1963 when she traveled to Abiquiu on a mission for June Wayne, founder and director of Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles. Brown, then associate director of Tamarind, was sent to offer O'Keeffe a fellowship to come to Tamarind to create lithographs. Brown is interviewed by Sarah Burt.