Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Month ago Reginald I. ("Rex") Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) signed a contract with Connecticut in which that State agreed to build within two years a museum to house his collection of North American bird drawings-a collection which some experts rate as the best since John James Audubon (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932).* By last week almost all of "Rex" Brasher's 874 original pictures, valued by him at $500,000, had been moved to the State Capitol vaults at Hartford...
More accurate than Audubon, who was inclined to exaggerate and dramatize his birds, "Rex" Brasher has spent most of his 65 years tramping across fields, swamps, beaches, spying on birds and recording their habits in soft, warm colors that suggest Japanese prints. Son of amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher who gave his name to the Brasher Warbler, he got his art training in Tiffany & Co.'s engraving department and from a Portland, Me. photo-engraver. For stay-at-home ornithologists and bird lovers he has made 100 twelve-volume sets of reproductions, each colored by hand. These sets sell...
...members of the Natural History Society of New York he was also one of the pioneer members of the Audubon Society and was instrumental in the popularization of its work and in the widening of its scope having been associated with it since its earliest days. For the last thirty years he had made his home at Yarmouthpert coming to Boston less and less frequently as the years went...
...story cottage in New Orleans in 1837 two strange figures faced one another. One was George Catlin, painter of Indians, contemporary and counterpart of famed Bird-Painter John James Audubon. For five years he had been living with Amerindians, studying their languages and ways, painting a comprehensive collection of Indian studies most of which are now in Washington's National Museum...
...qualifying trials the day before, William Denver of Audubon, Pa., and Hugh Hurst of Indianapolis were killed...