Brian Cooley Explained

Brian Cooley
Birth Name:Brian Cooley

Brian Cooley is a Canadian sculptor, specializing in dinosaurs.

Notable work

He produced the fleshed-out head of the Tyrannosaurus rex 'Sue' at the Field Museum of Natural History.[1]

He created several gigantic dinosaurs either climbing into or bursting out of The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indiana, including an adult and two juvenile alamosaurs which were installed at the museum June 11, 2004.[2]

Awards

Cooley was the recipient of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's John Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for 3-dimensional art in 2005.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Field Museum . Archive.fieldmuseum.org . 2012-11-24.
  2. Web site: R/Paleoart - Life-sized sculpture of a mother alamosaurus and two babies breaking out of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis - artist Brian Cooley .