Joseph Michael Gleeson (1861 – September 26, 1917) was an American painter and illustrator. He is responsible for the only painting of the life of a thylacine and her cubs, from the National Zoo's specimens in 1902. He co-illustrated one of the earliest American editions of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling.Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling, author and illustrator, additional color plates by Joseph M. Gleeson. Connecticut: Konecky and Konecky, (reprint of Doubleday & Co 1912 edition) Some of his works are now considered paleoart.
Gleeson died on September 26, 1917, in Ashburn, Virginia.
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Just So Stories, with Gleeson illustrations, at Project Gutenberg Gleeson illustrations for Just So Stories at Wikimedia Commons