Paul bransom biography

American painter

Paul Bransom (July 1885 – July 19, 1979)^[1] was an American painter, cartoonist, and illustrator of animals.

Biography

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 Paul Bransom - Wikipedia ZASIR