Gladys Brown Edwards was a noted equine artist working as a painter and in various print mediums, and was an authority on Arabian horses. She was born Gladys Melvina Brown in Porland, Oregon and moved with her family to Los Angeles at age five, in 1914. Edwards was studying art at Chouinard Institute in 1929, and exhibited her work in the late 1920s and 1930s at the Print Group, Los Angeles (1929); the Little Gallery, Monrovia (1930); Palos Verdes Gallery (1932); and the Los Angeles County Fair (1935).

Edwards married Cecil L. Edwards who was also involved with horses. While she worked at the Kellogg Ranch for over a decade and was active in the Arabian horse community, her husband was a respected horseman and Quartermaster General of the Pomona Remount Depot.