Scrapbook and prints, 1929-1939.

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Scrapbook and prints, 1929-1939.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/441856271

Scrapbook about Rex Brasher, including an autographed photo of Brasher; articles about Brasher; a prospectus for Birds and Trees of North America, which includes some colored plates; reviews of this book; and letters from Brasher to Jack Evans. As well, the collection includes 10 of the bird prints and one sheet with four images, showing steps in the creation of the colored prints.

1 volume, 1 box : ill.

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Brasher, Rex, 1869-1960

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Born in 1869 in Brooklyn, New York, Rex Brasher was one of America's greatest bird painters. He painted almost twice as many North American birds as Louis Aggasiz Fuertes or John James Audubon. In 1924, while living at his homestead in Kent, Connecticut, Brasher finished his task of 47 years, paintings that included 1200 species and sub-species of birds listed on the American Ornithologists Union (AOU) Checklist of North American Birds. From the description of Rex Brasher collection,...