Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom (July 1885 – July 19, 1979)[1] was an American painter, cartoonist, and illustrator of animals.
Biography
[edit]Born in Washington, D.C., as a child Bransom started sketching animals he saw in his backyard and at the National Zoo.[2] He began his career as a technical draftsman for the U.S. Patent Office when he was 13 years old. He relocated to New York City in 1903 and began drawing comic strips for the New York Evening Journal there. He drew the comic strip The Latest News from Bugville (1903–1912).[3] After moving to New York, his talent as a wildlife artist was recognized while creating studies of the animals at the Bronx Zoo.[4] His earliest commissions were covers for the Saturday Evening Post[4] and illustrations for editions of Kipling's Just So Stories and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.[5]
Bransom was awarded the Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal,[4] and his works are included in the collection of the National Museum of American Illustration at Newport, Rhode Island.[6]
Bransom was a resident of New York City from 1906 until his death. He died on July 19, 1979, during a visit to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, several days before his 94th birthday.[1]
Selected works
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- The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame (C. Scribner's Sons, 1913)
- An Argosy of Fables, ed. Frederic Taber Cooper (Frederick A. Stokes, c1921)
- The Wild Heart, Emma-Lindsay Squier (Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922)
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Kipling and Joseph M. Gleeson (Garden City, NY: Country Life Press, c1912) – Bransom provided front cover, endpapers, and title page illustrations for a 1932 edition containing the Kipling and Gleeson interior illustrations
- The Country Gentleman (Curtis Publishing) cover illustration
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Paul Bransom, Illustrator, Dies; Called 'Dean of Animal Artists'". Edith Evans Asbury. The New York Times. July 22, 1979. p. 34. Retrieved 2 September 2016.
"died Thursday in Quakerstown, Pa., where he had been visiting. He would have been 94 years old next week." - ^ "Paul Bransom papers, 1862–1985, bulk 1904–1979" (finding aid). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (aaa.si.edu).
With biographical sketch. - ^ "Paul Bransom". lambiek.net. Retrieved September 16, 2019.
- ^ a b c "Paul Bransom (1885–1979)". Artists Gallery. Indianapolis: Curtis Publishing. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Online Books by Paul Bransom". The Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Artists". National Museum of American Illustration (americanillustration.org). Retrieved 2 September 2016.
Formerly retrieved July 2011. Bransom's works are not among those included in the changing online display as of September 2016.
External links
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Media related to Paul Bransom at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by Paul Bransom at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Paul Bransom at the Internet Archive
- Paul Bransom at Library of Congress, with 26 library catalog records (see previous page of browse report, 'Bransom, Paul, 1885–' without '1979')
- Artwork by Paul Bransom
- 1885 births
- 1979 deaths
- Illustrators of fairy tales
- 20th-century American illustrators
- American magazine illustrators
- American children's book illustrators
- Wildlife artists
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters
- American comics artists
- American comic strip cartoonists
- 20th-century American male artists