Nationality Canadian Name Brian Cooley | Role Artist | |
Full Name Brian Douglas Cooley Born June 29, 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-06-29 ) Alberta, Canada | ||
Brian Douglas Cooley (born June 29, 1956) is a Canadian sculptor, specializing in life-sized reconstructions of dinosaurs. Cooley’s work can be found in museums and traveling exhibits around the world. He currently lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Cooley is one of a small group of paleoartists who specialize in fleshing out the skeletons uncovered by paleontologists in order to create lifelike models. Cooley and his artistic partner and wife Mary Ann Wilson have also adapted their sculpting techniques in Make-a-Saurus, a how-to book for children.
Notable work
Cooley’s sculptures have appeared on three National Geographic Magazine covers, including a dinosaur egg, the feathered dinosaur Caudipteryx and the head of a Tyrannosaurus rex. He has also produced a 70 foot tall sauropod and two babies for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the fleshed-out head of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex ‘Sue’ at the Field Museum of Natural History and a number of exhibits at the Royal Tyrrel Museum in Drumheller, Alberta.
Cooley was the recipient of the John Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for 3-dimensional art in 2005.