Rex Brasher (1869 - 1960)

Rex Brasher (July 31, 1869[1] – February 29, 1960) was an American watercolor painter and ornithologist. His surviving paintings depicted 1,200 species and sub-species of North American birds with unsurpassed accuracy and detail, representing all the species and sub-species identified in the American Ornithologists’ Union’s Checklist of North American Birds.