Arthur Bernard[1] Singer (4 December 1917 – 7 April 1990) was an American wildlife artist who primarily specialized in bird illustration.
In the 1930s he made friends with several jazz musicians active in Harlem, including Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway, both of whom he sketched during this period.
In 1942, while still in his early twenties, he was offered the opportunity of an exhibit of his animal illustration work by the New York Zoological Society.
[4] Influenced by Carl Rungius, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Wilhelm Kuhnert, Singer became a full-time illustrator and artist by 1955.
He received a Citation of Merit by the Society of Illustrators in 1974, and in 1977 he earned a silver medal at the International Book Fair in Leipzig, Germany, for Birds of the World.