New York Zoological Society Wild Animal Paintings (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1940 November 24 - 1941 January 31

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened November 24, 1940 and closed January 31, 1941. Located in the Education Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The New York Zoological Society Wild Animal Paintings Exhibition featured the New York Zoological Society's collection of paintings of North American mammals and birds that were either endangered or extinct.

Summary

The New York Zoological Society Wild Animal Paintings Exhibition featured the New York Zoological Society's collection of paintings of North American mammals and birds that were either endangered or extinct (1, p. 1-2)

Artists and exhibited works (1, p. 2):

*Rosa Bonheur: Portrait of a Lioness

*Charles Livingston Bull: Black Wolf

*A. Radclyffe Dugmore: Waterhole in Northern Kenya

*Louis Agassiz Fuertes: American Flamingo at Home, Whooping Crane

*R. Bruce Horsfall: The California Condor at Home, Pallas Cormorant, The Great Auk

*Charles R. Knight: Snow Leopard, Jaguar

*Carl Rungius: The Mountaineers (Bighorn Sheep), Wary Game (Alaskan White Sheep), White Mountain Goat, The Days of the Bison Millions, Alaskan Moose, Grant Caribou, Mule Deer in Bad Lands, Prong-Horned Antelope, White-Fronted Musk Ox, Northern Elephant Seal, Townsend's Fur Seal, American Elk, In His Prime (Elk, Wyoming), Polar Bear, Alaskan Brown Bear, Silver-Tip Grizzly Bear, An Old Prospector (Grizzly Bear), American Black Bear, Rocky Mountain Puma, Gray Wolf, Portrait of a Lion, Young Gorilla, "Dinah", Bay Lynx, Wolverine, Red Fox, Gray Fox, Canada Lynx, White Tailed Deer

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

(1) American Museum of Natural History. Press Release. November 24, 1940. Departmental Records. DR 101. American Museum of Natural History Research Library.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Education Hall.
Location of exhibition 1940 November 24 – 1941 January 31 (1, p. 1)

Bonheur, Rosa, 1822-1899
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Bull, Charles Livingston 1874-1932
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Dugmore, A. Radclyffe (Arthur Radclyffe) 1870-1955
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Fuertes, Louis Agassiz 1874-1927
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Horsfall, R. Bruce (Robert Bruce) 1869-1948
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Knight, Charles Robert 1874-1953
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Rungius, Carl 1869-1959
Featured artist (1, p. 2)

Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.)
Institutional partner (1, p. 1)

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s.
November 24, 1940.

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