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Rex Brasher (July 31, 1869 [1] – February 29, 1960) was an American watercolor painter and ornithologist in the vein of John James Audubon and Louis Agassiz Fuertes.Brasher's 875 surviving paintings depicted 1,200 species and sub-species of North American birds in accurate detail, representing all the species and sub-species identified in the American Ornithologists’ Union’s Checklist of ...
Educated in Rochester and at the Regent Street Polytechnic, he was a skilled bird and mammal painter, holding annual exhibitions of his paintings and etchings. The subjects of his etchings were snipe, Canada geese, mallard and kingfishers. He also gave lectures on bird watching and the drawing of birds, with an emphasis on birds in flight.
The birds in Savage's paintings are easy to identify, but some of the bird names are incorrect. He mostly painted southeast Iowa birds such as the Bohemian waxwing, the worm-eating warbler, Nelson's sparrow, and Smith's longspur. Most of his paintings were completed during his final 20 years and people often visited his home to see them. Savage ...
Frank Weston Benson created a wide range of paintings, including portraits, landscapes, waterscapes, still lifes and murals. [1] He worked in oil paint, watercolor, etching and dry point. Over his career he made over six hundred watercolor paintings, like the landscape Camp that he made during a salmon fishing trip in Canada with his son ...
After the First World War, Talbot Kelly began to exhibit his bird paintings. In 1925, he was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. [1]Upon leaving the army in 1929, Talbot Kelly was appointed Director of Art at his alma mater, Rugby School and, during the 1930s began to publish books of his paintings.
To date the highest price brought at auction for an oil painting by Benson is $4.1 million, realized at Sotheby's in 1995. [26] On October 19, 2006, a watercolor painting by Benson was sold at auction for $165,002. The painting was anonymously donated to an Oregon Goodwill Industries site, most likely without the owner's knowing of its value ...
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most prolific American bird artists, second only to his guiding professional predecessor John James Audubon.