| Monahan
was born in Ireland in 1914. He began drawing birds as a
child in India. He studied in London, England, at the
Slade School and in Dublin, Ireland, at the Royal
Hibernian Academy. He worked as a purchasing agent until
1948, when he was able to make enough of an income from
his painting to support himself. In 1956 he emigrated to
British Columbia, Canada, where he established a
reputation as a wildlife artist specializing in
waterfowl. Examples of his paintings include Pintails in
Norfolk, Ducks in Flight, Honkers Rising on a Freshening
Breeze, and Mallards at Dawn. He also painted
backgrounds for dioramas in the British Museum in London
and the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa. He was a
member of the Federation of British Columbia
Naturalists, of which he served as president, and the
British Columbia Waterfowl Society, of which he served
as director. He exhibited in Vancouver, British
Columbia, and Calgary, Alberta, among other places.
Monahan died near
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, while duck hunting
in 1970. |
