Rex Brasher

01/14/2026

Limited edition!

01/14/2026

Beautiful written piece by Christopher Hoffman on the making of REX.

Christopher Hoffman's "REX"

12/31/2025

A few weeks ago, nine-year-old Rudy inspired our first-ever calendar for Rex Brasher. We sent an initial mockup to this young activist for his feedback. The final print is coming along nicely and is headed to the print shop on Monday.

It’s the last day of the year today. If you are able to donate $100, we will ship you a calendar in mid-January. Every dollar counts as we continue to make progress on this massive undertaking to preserve Rex Brasher’s life and legacy. Thank you so much for your support!

12/21/2025

A huge thanks to nine-year-old Rudy for inspiring our first-ever annual calendar. Rudy loves all creatures, kind and gentle. His father Rob was on the hunt for this year’s holiday gift and asked us “Where can I order the 2026 Rex Brasher calendar?”

Thanks to Rob and Rudy, here it is! We chose twelve of our favorites and worked with a professional design team to create a beautiful keepsake calendar. Donate $100 today for a limited edition, 11x17 large-format print on a luxurious cotton blend.

rexbrasher.org/donate

12/15/2025

REX, the debut solo album by cellist Christopher Hoffman, releases January 16, 2026, on LP, CD, and digital, and is a tribute to one of America’s great bird artists, Rex Brasher (1869–1960).

10/16/2024

Scribbles. Sketches. Notes. The smallest of musings may very well lead to some of the greatest work of our lives.

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Over the last few months, we had the incredible opportunity to collaborate with Field Notes, founded in 2007 by Jim Coudal and Aaron Draplin. The talented team of designers at Field Notes has carefully selected and reproduced six of Rex Brasher’s paintings for this quarter’s limited edition.

At the age of eight, Rex decided he would one day paint every bird in North America, from life, in their natural habitat. And he did.

While other notable artists painted birds from taxidermy, Rex’s portraits render these beloved creatures with the vitality and clarity one can only observe in the wild. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Rex Brasher did what many others dare not: he traveled North America on foot and by ship to observe birds in their natural habitats, sending notes and sketches back to New York, ready to begin painting when he returned home.

“Birds and Trees of North America” is Rex Brasher’s seminal work, comprised of 874 watercolor paintings bound in an encyclopedic set of twelve volumes. It is an astounding body of work for one person to set their mind to — and to achieve in a single lifetime. Rex was born with an inherent gift for capturing the beauty of birds in the wild, rendering these creatures in all of their whim and wonder and with exacting detail, just as one might go about describing a close friend.

Rex Brasher relied heavily on his notes in the field. What began as detailed sketches and detailed notes eventually became the definitive “Birds and Trees of North America”. You never know what your notebook may bring.

We couldn’t have imagined a more perfect collaboration. Field Notes is known for integrity, craftsmanship, and thoughtful design, revered the world over by designers, writers, and people who understand the magic of using one’s own hands to write, to draw, to think, to create.

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Get out there and make something.

10/05/2023

Please join us this Saturday, October 7, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Wassaic Firehouse. We have an incredible set of speakers lined up to share the incredible life and work of Rex Brasher. The event is free. Everyone is welcome. We will have fabulous cocktails and food.

05/12/2023

At the age of 8, Rex Brasher told his father that he wanted to paint every bird in North America. To have that level of clarity and conviction at such a young age is astounding.

In 1924, Rex Brasher finished 874 watercolor paintings of all 1,200 subspecies of birds listed on the American Ornithologists Union (AOU) Checklist of North American Birds. Not a single bird was killed and stuffed in this monumental endeavor. Rex believed in the power of quiet observation and had deep respect for the natural world.

One hundred years later, the life and legacy of Rex Brasher is a story worth telling. Beyond grateful to Philip Kennicott and Zoeann Murphy for bringing this incredible artist and naturalist into the public eye.

Rex Brasher painted more birds than Audubon, and he never owned slaves.