Brian Cooley

Canadian sculptor

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Brian Cooley

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Brian Cooley

Brian Cooley is a Canadian sculptor, specializing in dinosaurs.

## Notable work

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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 alamosaurus which were installed at the museum June 11, 2004.[2]

## Awards

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

## References

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1. ^ "Field Museum". Archive.fieldmuseum.org. Retrieved 2012-11-24.
2. ^ "R/Paleoart - Life-sized sculpture of a mother alamosaurus and two babies breaking out of the Children's Museum of Indianapolis - artist Brian Cooley".
3. ^ SVP Award, Prize and Grant Recipients, SVP (Society of Vertebrate Paleontology), archived from the original on March 17, 2019, retrieved June 5, 2014

## External links

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* Video on dinosaur sculpture process on YouTube