11-19-200411-20-2004
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2260Boston
November 19, 2004 04:00 PMCalender
59

Paul Bransom (American, 1886-1979) Polar Bear

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$3,819$3,250
Auction: American & European Works of Art - 2260Location: BostonDate / Time: November 19, 2004 4:00PM

Description:

Paul Bransom (American, 1886-1979)

Polar Bear
Signed "PAUL BRANSOM" l.r.
Oil on Masonite, 15 x 19 in. (38.1 x 48.2 cm),framed.
Condition: Good.

Provenance: Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.

Exhibition: Canadian Wildlife: An Exhibition of the Seagram Collection of Wildlife Paintings, Canadian National Exhibition, 1965.

N.B. Paul Bransom had a successful career as a painter of animals and was called the "Dean of American Animal Artists." He was self-taught and worked as a draftsman before moving to New York at age 17 to work as a cartoonist. Throughout his career, Bransom created hundreds of animal illustrations for magazines and books, including Jack London's Call of the Wild and Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows. His paintings also appeared in the Seagram Sportsman Calendars. Bransom believed in painting from nature, and observed wildlife from his summer homes in the Adirondacks and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

This work was reproduced as the November/December page of the 1951 Seagram's Sportman's Calendar.
Estimate $2,000-4,000

Keywords

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