Nationality American Name Tony Angell | Role Writer | |
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Born 1940 Los Angeles, California Known for bird illustration, sculpture Awards V&A Illustration Awards, 2006 Elected American Ornithologists Union, memberNational Sculpture Society, fellowExplorers Club, fellow Books In the Company of Crows, Puget Sound Through, The House of Owls, Ravens - Crows - Magpies, Owls | ||
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Tony Angell is an American wildlife artist and writer.:704 He has lived in Seattle, Washington, since 1959.
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Life
Angell was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1940. His father was a private eye, and his mother a painter and teacher. Angell grew up in the San Fernando Valley.:88 He went to Seattle in 1959 on an athletics scholarship and obtained BA and MA degrees from the University of Washington.:88
Angell was head of the Office of Environmental Education of the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction of Washington State for over thirty years. He was active in the Nature Conservancy, with time as chairman and as a member of the board of its Washington State chapter.:289
Work
Angell has written and illustrated several books, predominantly about birds, and has provided illustrations for others. His illustrations for In the Company of Crows and Ravens won the V&A Illustration Awards in 2006.
He makes sculptures in bronze and stone and has shown them regularly for some forty years.:289 He has worked in chlorite, granite, marble, sandstone, serpentine, slate and soapstone. Museums holding his work include the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, the Gilcrease Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole, Wyoming,:289 and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Angell acknowledges a number of influences on his work: the bird illustrators Don Eckelberry and Morris Graves, the carvings of the Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, and a Japanese Edo Period screen carved with crows in the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
Publications
Angell's published works include:
