This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  The following is from Michael Hoxie:
Allan Brooks did the majority of the illustrations for the book The Birds of Minnesota by T. S. Roberts, 1932, as well as Birds of California by Dawson done about the same time. There is a short discussion of him in the book Wildlife Art in America, available at the Bell Museum.
Other biographical info can be found in the introduction written by Roger Tory Peterson to Audubon's Birds of America, Abbeville Press, 1981, and Masterpieces of Bird Art: 700 Years of Ornithological Illustration, by Roger Pasquier and John Farrand, Abbeville Press, 1991.
"Allan Brooks (1869-1946) was a remarkable Canadian known to few Canadians. Naturalist, artist, soldier, sniper, hunter, scientist, his goals were to excel; his achievements therefore were among the best. English to the core, he was Canadian more than he knew and home through most of his life was his beloved British Columbia."
R. Yorke Edwards, Director, British Columbian Provincial Museum. Foreword
information 1st paragraph copied from the 1979 book Allan Brooks artist
naturalist, by Hamilton M. Laing, British Columbia Provincial Museum
special publication 3.
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