April 17, 2024
New York WPA Era Watercolor PAUL BRANSOM 'Driftwood in a Stream', 12" x 18
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ORIGINAL AND VINTAGE ............. PAUL BRANSOM .............. WPA ERA WATERCOLOR ON PAPER, 'DRIFTWOOD IN A STREAM', 12" x 18" This is a 12" x 18" Original and Vintage watercolor on paper by the NewYork, California and Wyoming painter and illustrator P aul Bran som, 1885-1979. The watercolor is a n Andrew Wyeth and Winslow Homer type depiction of driftwood resting on a rock in a stream . The painting is signed at lower right. Painted in the 1930s. Fine condition and framed very well in a mahogany frame. Glass removed for shipping.The Biography Follows: 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
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