at the Army's Realengo Military School, then studies sculpturing at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (Brazil's major fine arts school)
Brazil
writer & illustr. for Rio de Janeiro newspaper Correio da Manha ; drawings during dozens of field trips to Jacarepagua, Barra da Tijuca, Guaratiba, and the slopes of the Pedra Branca massif, all in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro; A.M.C.: O Sertao Carioca [Rio's Outback] (Rio de Janeiro 1933); Terra Carioca: Fontes e Chafarizes (Rio de Janeiro 1939); A.M.C.: A Guanabara como natureza, 2016 (a selection of his articles)
many years curator in the Natural History Section of the Museo National de Rio de Janeiro; prof. at the Escola de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro
botanical, zoological, historical, and topographical drawing ;
José Luiz de Andreade Franco & José Augusto Drummond: Wilderness and the Brazilian mind, Environmental History 13 (2008): 724-750, esp. 731-735; Eduardo Sarmento: Pelas Veredas da Capital - Magalhaes Correa e a Invengao Formal do Sertao Carioca (Rio de Janeiro 1998, available at www.cpdoc.fgv.br); Carlos Cavalcanti, ed., Dicionario Brasileiro de Artistas Plasticos (Brasilia 1973); Carlos Engemann: Angela Rosa da Silveira and Rogerio Ribeiro de Oliveira, "Magalhaes Correa, 0 Viajante Do Seculo XX," in: As Marcas do Homem na Floresta: Historia Ambiental de um Trecho Urbano de Mata Atlantica, ed. Rogerio Ribeiro de Oliveira (Rio de Janeiro 2005): 21 ;
Brazilian sculptor, sketch artist, professor, and writer, also a self-taught naturalist. For many years, A.M.C. was curator in the Natural History Section of the Museo National de Rio de Janeiro and prof. at the Escola de Belas Artes do Rio de Janeiro; he was also affiliated with the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico do Rio de Janeiro
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