Bertram Clinton Broome was born in Virginia. He moved to New York
and New Jersey where he worked as an illustrator and draftsman. He
illustrated a cover for Field and Stream in 1900. He moved to the
Southwest and was living on the Hopi Reservation in 1910.
Several of his watercolors are in the collection of Hubbell Trading
Post National Historic Site.
He lived for a time in Connecticut after his marriage in 1914 later
returning to New Mexico. He worked for a time at the Texas General
Land Office and sold his works from the Fred Hummert Gallery in San
Antonio. He was to spend the majority of the remainder of his life
in New Mexico and Texas, making maps, illustrating magazines, and
painting scenes of the Southwest. Some of his fictional stories of
the West are in the collection of the University of Oklahoma along
with watercolors and other art works. He died and is buried in
Santa Fe.