Description: DENNIS PULESTON (UK/NY, 1906-2001)
"Black-browed Albatross on Nest", waercolor on paper, signed lower right, in silver painted half round frame, matted and glazed, OS: 11 3/4" x 14", SS: 6 3/4" x 9 1/4". Good condition.
During WWII, Puleston helped design the DUKW, was badly injured by shrapnel in the South Pacific. In 1948, President Truman awarded him the Freedom Medal for his wartime service. In 1966, Puleston was part of a group that filed a class action in the New York State Supreme Court to force the commission to stop using DDT. The following year Puleston and his colleagues founded the Environmental Defence Fund (EDF) and Puleston became its first chairman. The EDF went on to win further bans in other states and a nationwide ban in 1972. It subsequently became one of the largest environmental organizations in America.