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...Brasher (pronounced Bray-sher) inherited a tremendous ambition from his father, a Wall Street broker and amateur ornithologist who had known the great John James Audubon, had thought his work incomplete and inaccurate, had urged young Rex to paint all the birds of the U. S. and paint them better. Obediently, after years of spare-time study, Rex bought a sailboat for $600, coasted from Maine to Florida, piercing inlets, foraging ashore for all the birds he could find. And later, on $10,000 race-track winnings, he traveled the continent for three years- everywhere sketching. With the whole West...
...River Ducks, Monroe Marshes, 1909. All Drakes"; "Pintails-They come in like no other ducks." Best picture in the book: "Woodcock-October Flight," a plate with the violet of early evening on swamp alders, and the big yellow moon coming over the mountain, easily a match for Rex Brasher's more meticulous rendition of the same ghostly little subject...
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...
...unusual as Brasher's bird pictures will be the museum Connecticut intends to build in the Berkshires' Kent State Park. It will be a round, three-story structure, capable of holding 2,500 persons at one time. Visitors will climb ramps from the first floor to a rotunda on the second. There the circular floor space will be divided into twelve pie-like segments. At the end of each segment, facing the rotunda, will be hung the twelve biggest and best Brashers, to be viewed by visitors without moving from the building's centre. The other Brasher...
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...