Dwight Franklin

Dwight Franklin (28 January 1888 in New York City – 19 January 1971 in Santa Monica, California) was an American artist, taxidermist, naturalist, museum curator, and designer of costumes for Hollywood films.

Actor Glenn Hunter and Dwight Franklin, from a 1923 magazine

Career

Dwight Franklin began working 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.[1] Franklin created many figurines and sculptures.[2] 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.

With John Treadwell Nichols and Henry Weed Fowler, he was a founder in 1915 of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists.

In the early 1930s Franklin moved from New York City to Los Angeles to work as a costume designer for Hollywood films.[3]

Personal life

Franklin married Mary C. McCall Jr. (1904-1986), novelist and screenwriter, in January 1928. They divorced in February 1943. He married Eliza Moultrie Franklin (1901–1982) in 1947, and they remained married until his death in 1971.[4][5]

Selected publications
  • "A Method of Preparing Fish for Museum and Exhibition Purposes". 1910. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • "Color Changes in Collared Lizards". Copeia. 1: 2–3. 1913. JSTOR 1436102.
  • "Some Fish of the Middle West". Am. Mus. J. 14: 37. 1914.
  • "Note on a Nesting Sunfish". Copeia. 11: 1. 1914. JSTOR 1435467.
  • Franklin, Dwight (1914). "Notes on Leopard Lizards". Copeia. 5 (5): 1–2. doi:10.2307/1435769. JSTOR 1435769.
  • "Comparative Numbers of Lizards and Snakes on Desert". Copeia. 12: 2. 1914. JSTOR 1436702.
  • "Notes on a Fish Caught Three Times". Copeia. 22: 36. 1915. JSTOR 1437000.
  • Franklin, Dwight (1915). "Notes on Amblystoma Tinigrum at Flagstaff, Arizona". Copeia. 21 (21): 30–31. doi:10.2307/1435786. JSTOR 1435786.
  • "A Recent Development in Museum Groups". Proceedings of the American Association of Museums. 11: 110–112. 1916.

Partial filmography

References
  1. Dean, Bashford (23 May 1914). "The Life Habits of Fishes: Exhibits in the American Museum". Scientific American. Supplement, Volume 77 (2003supp): 332–333. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05231914-332supp.
  2. Reniers, Percival (March 1920). "A New Art of the Theatre". Theatre Magazine. 31 (229): 176–177.
  3. Dwight Franklin: The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door, hrc.utexas.edu
  4. Dwight Franklin - Artist Bulletins, askart.com
  5. Person Details for Eliza Moultrie Franklin, "California Death Index, 1940–1997"
  6. Dwight Franklin, imdb.com
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