James Prosek is cross-referenced under American Artists and Naturalists, Earth and Environment. He made his authorial debut at nineteen years of age with Trout: an Illustrated History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), which featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America. Prosek has shown his paintings at galleries and museums throughout the world and has written for The New York Times and National Geographic, among others. He won a Peabody Award in 2003 for his documentary about traveling through England in the footsteps of Izaak Walton, the seventeenth-century author of The Compleat Angler. He co-founded a conservation initiative called World Trout in 2004 with Yvon Chouinard, the owner of Patagonia clothing company, which raises money for coldwater habitat conservation through the sale of T-shirts featuring trout paintings.
Prosek is a curatorial affiliate of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale and a member of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies board.
Source: https://midcurrent.com/art/james-prosek/
