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Name: JANSSON, August
Birth Date: 1 Aug 1890 White Hills, pennsylvania
Death Date: 30 Mar 1960
Nationality: USA
First Date: 1912
Profession: Artist, accompanied Carl Akeley
Area: Kiambu
Book Reference: Red Book 1912
General Information:
Red Book 1912 - A. Jansson - Kyambu
?Gazette 18/1/1922 - Petition for Insolvency - August Jansen of Nairobi
Ancestry Passenger list 1926 London-Mombasa August Arthur Jansson, artist, aged 36, US citizen
www.askart.com/artist/Arthur August Jansson/ Trained at the Art Students League in New York from 1909 to 1912, as well as at the New York Industrial Arts School and the School of Modern Methods in Chicago, Jansson served as a background painter for dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History Hall of Asian Mammals, the Akeley Hall of African Mammals, and the Birds of the World Hall.
Jansson accompanied Carl Akeley on Akeley's final expedition to Africa in 1926 to gather field sketches for the dioramas in the African Hall. A. A. Jansson was the one who suggested to Akeley that W. R. Leigh (William Robinson Leigh) be hired as the second artist for the expedition. Jansson had earlier in his career studied art with Leigh.
Jansson also completed diorama backgrounds for the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Jansson accompanied Carl Akeley on Akeley's final expedition to Africa in 1926 to gather field sketches for the dioramas in the African Hall. A. A. Jansson was the one who suggested to Akeley that W. R. Leigh (William Robinson Leigh) be hired as the second artist for the expedition. Jansson had earlier in his career studied art with Leigh.
Jansson also completed diorama backgrounds for the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.