Scientific Illustrations (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1955 May 10 - 1955 June 5

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened May 10, 1955 and closed June 5, 1955. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Scientific Illustrations featured approximately fifty years of work by the Museum's scientific illustrators, most originally created for the Museum's scientific publications.

Summary

Scientific Illustrations featured approximately fifty years of work by the Museum's scientific illustrators, most originally created for the Museum's scientific publications and featured more than sixty illustrations in pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor of amphibians, reptiles, anthropological objects, birds, fishes, fossils, insects, spiders, and mammals, which had originally appeared in Museum publications such as Novitates, Bulletins, and Anthropological Papers (1, p. 1).

Illustrations in the exhibition included (1, p. 1-2):

*Colored moths

*The underside of the foot of a Rocky Mountain goat

*Mouth-breeding fishes

*The oldest work on view, a 1902 black and white drawing of the skull of Hyophippus osborn

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. "Work of Museum Illustrators to Go on View." May 10, 1955. Departmental Records, DR 101. American Museum of Natural History Library.

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Related Corporate, Personal, and Family Names

American Museum of Natural History. Corner Gallery.
Location of exhibition 1955 May 10 - 1955 June 5 (1, 1955, p.1)

Related Resources

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s.
"Work of Museum Illustrators to Go on View." May 10, 1955.

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