Rex Brasher: Painter of Birds: A Biography Imagine devoting your entire life to a single, all-consuming passion so fierce and unrelenting that it reshapes everything around you, demanding sacrifice, solitude, and an almost supernatural dedication to beauty. That was the life of Rex Brasher, an American artist whose obsession with painting birds drove him deep into forests and marshes, across mountain ridges and coastal shores, through poverty and obscurity, until he had produced one of the...

A delightful series of sketches about our native woods and their furred and feathered inhabitantsWhen Rex Brasher was eight years old, he vowed to paint every kind of bird in North America. Forty years later, he accomplished his monumental task and decided to write this book. Brasher was recognized at the time by museum experts and ornithologists as the twentieth-century Audubon.While studying birds and sketching them from life in the field, Brashe...

Rex Brasher is best known for his having painted in watercolor a complete set of all the extant American birds during his lifetime. This is a collection of his writing that serves as a kind of memoir. These are set on his 150-acre farm purchased in 1911 and never developed in his lifetime beyond a simple house and an outbuilding or two.