Earl Lincoln Poole (1891–1972) was an American wildlife artist, sculptor, author, and naturalist.
He undertook teaching duties at the Reading Boy's High School in 1915, guided by Levi Mengel, director of the Reading Public Museum at the time, and was subsequently promoted to director of art education.
In 1920, Poole was transferred to the Reading Public Museum, though he still served as Supervisor of Art at Reading Boy's High School until 1930, and was named assistant director of the museum in 1925 and director in 1938.
[2] Poole was also the founder of the Baird Ornithological Club and helped to establish the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary.
[3] Berks Nature, a nonprofit land trust, has a 30+ acre preserve named after Earl Poole in Alsace Township, Pennsylvania[4] This article about an illustrator is a stub.