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George Dwight Franklin (28 January 1888, New York City – 19 January 1971, Santa Monica, California) was an artist, taxidermist, naturalist, museum curator, and designer of costumes and sets for Hollywood films. Dwight Franklin began employment in 1906 as a taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History. In 1910 he participated in a Museum-sponsored expedition to Mississippi's Moon Lake, part of the habitat of the American paddlefish. With John Treadwell Nichols and Henry Weed Fowler, he was a founder in 1915 of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Franklin created many figurines and sculptures. He built historical dioramas for the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Newark Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York. In the early 1930s Franklin moved from New York City to Los Angeles to work as a costume designer and set designer for Hollywood films.〔(Dwight Franklin: The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door, hrc.utexas.edu )〕 His wife was Eliza Moultrie Franklin (1901–1982).〔(Dwight Franklin - Artist Bulletins, askart.com )〕〔(Person Details for Eliza Moultrie Franklin, "California Death Index, 1940–1997" )〕 ==Selected publications== * * * * * * * * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dwight Franklin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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