They Mixed Science, Art and Costume Parties to Reveal Mysteries of the Sea<br />He would call up to another researcher, often Ms. Hollister — who would lead her own expedition in 1936 to what was then British Guiana<br />and also broke diving records as the first woman to complete a deep sea dive in the Bathysphere at 1,208 feet — who would dictate what he saw.<br />He encouraged the careers of his staff artists, which included Isabel Cooper, Helen Damrosch Tee-Van<br />and Else Bostelmann — as well as Mr. Schoedsack, Ms. Rose and many more.<br />Ms. Cooper was a staff artist who joined Beebe on seven voyages including a 1925 expedition from New York to the Galápagos aboard the Arcturus.<br />Then, artists like Ms. Bostelmann, who painted this image of a fish chasing another fish’s larvae,<br />would create their illustrations based on those dictations or specimens dredged up from below.<br />Starting in 1922, Ms. Tee-Van, an accomplished New York artist, joined Beebe on<br />13 expeditions to then British Guiana, Haiti, Venezuela, Bermuda and Trinidad.<br />The research team would bring specimens to the artists’ stations, or the artists would catch animals on their own.<br />Some of the artists on Beebe’s expeditions went diving in helmets and tried drawing with zinc tablets and painting with oils under water.
