sentences:  After escaping from the prison camp, and on returning to New Zealand, the Rehabilitation Department (an organisation set up to assist returned servicemen back into the workforce) assisted Brown to study commercial art and he began his training at the Elam Art School of the University of Auckland in 1946.In 1948, Brown was asked to teach by Archie Fisher, then Head of the Elam Art School, so he became a part-time lecturer from 1948–1950, before he had even completed his studies.In 1951 he completed his studies, and he continued as a full-time lecturer at Elam from 1952–1959, when he left to undertake independent study and painting.