The Bird Art of William T Cooper
Wendy Cooper
WINNER INDIE BOOK AWARDS ILLUSTRATED NON-FICTION 2024
SHORTLISTED COURIER-MAIL PEOPLE’S CHOICE QUEENSLAND BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024
The sketches of master bird painter William T. Cooper show an artist with astute observational skills, intent on capturing bird behaviour, an individual’s personality, the flora of a species’ habitat. These sketches, in pencil, pen and occasional spots of watercolour, were begun in the field, often in the company of his wife, botanist Wendy Cooper.
In The Bird Art of William T. Cooper, Wendy has compiled Cooper’s sketches, as well as entries from his field diary and finished paintings, taking the reader from the wet sclerophyll forests of northern Queensland to the grasslands of the dry country, from the birds-of-paradise of New Guinea to the hornbills of Africa. William T. Cooper loved to paint nature with all of its flaws and beauty; the result is a harmony of scientific precision and artistic expression.
A beautiful hardcover book published by the National Library of Australia, in which I could regularly lose myself for many hours, The Botanical Art of William T Cooper celebrates the artist’s life and brings his superb work to a new audience ...
- Release
- Oct-2023
- ISBN
- 9781922507600
- RRP (AUD)
- $64.99
- Format
- Hardback
- Category
- Art
Wendy Cooper
Wendy Cooper was Bill Cooper’s partner in life and work. She is a respected botanist who has discovered, and named, a number of new plant species, and has also had species named in her honour.
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