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Paul Bransom

Paul (John Paul) Bransom (1885 - 1979) was active/lived in New York, Wyoming, California, District Of Columbia.  Paul Bransom is known for Illustrator-wildlife, dog-genre.

An animal and wildlife illustrator and painter, Paul Bransom was born in Washington D.C. and began drawing animals from early childhood. He left school at age thirteen and became an apprentice-draftsman assisting with mechanical drawings for patents. He also spent much of his free time at the Washington Zoo sketching the animals, carefully observing their unique characteristics.

He later went to New York and took a job with the "New York Evening Journal" doing a comic strip called 'The Latest News from Bugville.' He later said that illustrators Walt Kuhn and T.S. Sullivant, who did animal cartoons, and Charles Livingston Bull had the major influence on his work.

In New York, he spent so much time at the Bronx Zoo that he set up a studio in the Lion House, and his goal was to do animal illustrations for magazines. His portfolio so impressed the editor of "The Saturday Evening Post" that they began using his work.

Bransom had a long, distinguished career, illustrat   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1615 characters.]  Artist bio

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