They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea

They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea

They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Seabr He would call up to another researcher, often Ms. Hollister — who would lead her own expedition in 1936 to what was then British Guianabr and also broke diving records as the first woman to complete a deep sea dive in the Bathysphere at 1,208 feet — who would dictate what he saw.br He encouraged the careers of his staff artists, which included Isabel Cooper, Helen Damrosch Tee-Vanbr and Else Bostelmann — as well as Mr. Schoedsack, Ms. Rose and many more.br Ms. Cooper was a staff artist who joined Beebe on seven voyages including a 1925 expedition from New York to the Galápagos aboard the Arcturus.br Then, artists like Ms. Bostelmann, who painted this image of a fish chasing another fish’s larvae,br would create their illustrations based on those dictations or specimens dredged up from below.br Starting in 1922, Ms. Tee-Van, an accomplished New York artist, joined Beebe onbr 13 expeditions to then British Guiana, Haiti, Venezuela, Bermuda and Trinidad.br The research team would bring specimens to the artists’ stations, or the artists would catch animals on their own.br Some of the artists on Beebe’s expeditions went diving in helmets and tried drawing with zinc tablets and painting with oils under water.


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