Paul Bransom 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

Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo is located in the Bronx borough of New York City, within Bronx Park. It is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States, comprising of park lands and naturalistic habitats, through which the Bronx River flows....

. His earliest commissions were covers for the Saturday Evening Post and illustrations for editions of Kipling's Just So Stories

Just So Stories

The Just So Stories for Little Children were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are highly fantasised origin stories and are among Kipling's best known works.-Description:...

and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows

The Wind in the Willows is a classic of children's literature by Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Alternately slow moving and fast paced, it focuses on four anthropomorphised animal characters in a pastoral version of England...

. He was awarded the Benjamin West Clinedinst Memorial Medal, and his works included in the collection of the National Museum of American Illustration

National Museum of American Illustration

The National Museum of American Illustration , founded in 1998, is the first national museum to be devoted exclusively to American illustration artwork....

at Newport, Rhode Island.

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

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