Article ID: CBB001211518

The Travails of an Early-Twentieth-Century Wildlife Illustrator in North America (2008)

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Winearls, Joan (Author)


Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Volume: 31
Pages: 131--154


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise”
Language: English

British by birth Allan Cyril Brooks (1869-1946) emigrated to Canada in the 1880s, and became one of the most important North American bird illustrators during the first half of the twentieth century. Brooks was one of the leading ornithologists and wildlife collectors of the time; he corresponded extensively with other ornithologists and supplied specimens to many major North American museums. From the 1890s on he hoped to support himself by painting birds and mammals, but this was not possible in Canada at that time and he was forced to turn to American sources for illustration commissions. His work can be compared with that of his contemporary, the leading American bird painter Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874--1927), and there are striking similarities and differences in their careers. This paper discusses the work of a talented, self-taught wildlife artist working in a North American milieu, his difficulties and successes in a newly developing field, and his quest for Canadian recognition.

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Description On the work of Allan Cyril Brooks, beginning in the 1890s.


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Article Dickenson, Victoria; Heaman, Elsbeth (2008) Introduction. Natural Science in the New World: The Descriptive Enterprise. Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (p. 1). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Martin A. Sidor
Ian J. Mason
Matteo Ruzzon
Di Meo, Alessandro
Robert P. Prŷs-Jones
Peter B. Logan
Concepts
Birds
Natural history
Ornithology
Collectors and collecting
Scientific illustration
Science and art
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
Places
Australia
Great Britain
Philadelphia, PA
South Asia
New Guinea
Edinburgh
Institutions
Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology
Cornell Library of Natural Sounds
Museo di Scienze Naturali di Torino
Museo Calderini
British Trust for Ornithology
Natural History Museum (London, England)
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