Paul Bransom

Paul Bransom (1885–1979) was an U.S. illustrator of animals.

Born in Washington, D.C., he began his career as a technical draftsman and comic strip artist. After moving to New York, his talent as a wildlife artist was recognised while creating studies of the animals at the Bronx Zoo.^[1] His earliest commissions were covers for the Saturday Evening Post^[1] and illustrations for editions of Kipling's Just So Stories and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows.^[2] He was awarded the Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal,^[1] and his works included in the collection of the National Museum of American Illustration at Newport, Rhode Island.^[3]

Bransom's published works include:

Just So Stories (Garden City, NY: Country Life Press, c1912), by Rudyard Kipling
An Argosy of Fables (New York: F. A. Stokes, c1921), ed. by Frederic Taber Cooper
The Wild Heart (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1922), by Emma-Lindsay Squier
The Wind in the Willows (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1913), by Kenneth Grahame
The Country Gentleman (Curtis Publishing) cover illustration

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Paul Bransom (1885-1979)". Artists Gallery. Indianapolis: Curtis Publishing. http://www.curtispublishing.com/bios/Bransom.shtml. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
^ "(Bransom, Paul, 1885-1979)". The Online Books Page. University of Pennsylvania. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Bransom%2C%20Paul%2C%201885-1979. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
^ "The Star on our Flag". National Museum of American Illustration,. 2010. http://www.americanillustration.org/artists.html. Retrieved 14 July 2011.

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Date of death	1979
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