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Jansson, Arthur August, 1890-1960

 Person

Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:

[African Mammal Hall background study of a plain with small trees] [art original] / [A.A. Jansson]

 Item — Frame: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 357
Scope and Contents

Painting by Jansson during the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to British East Africa, 1926-1927. Landscape with small trees or brushes in foreground, a plain in the middle ground and low mountains in the background. Jansson painted many scenes for the proposed Akeley Hall of African Mammals. This was not used for any of the dioramas for the hall. In wooden frame painted gray, 45 x 68 cm. Painting unsigned. On back of painting: "P 505" and "#11."

Dates: 1926
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / [African Mammal Hall background study of a plain with small trees] [art original] / [A.A. Jansson]

An Inca Background / LR "Arthur Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 874
Dates: 1930
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / An Inca Background / LR "Arthur Jansson"

Arthur August Jansson Baltimore group photographs

 Collection
Identifier: PPC .J36
Scope and Contents

Photographs of the rural landscape of Baltimore.

Dates: 1933
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Arthur August Jansson Baltimore group photographs

Blazing the Trail to the Distant Past / LR "Arthur A. Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 559
Dates: 1928
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Blazing the Trail to the Distant Past / LR "Arthur A. Jansson"

Buffalo Being Stampeded over the Cliff / LL "Arthur A. Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 722
Dates: 1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Buffalo Being Stampeded over the Cliff / LL "Arthur A. Jansson"

Buffalo Herd / LR "A.A. Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 723
Dates: 1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Buffalo Herd / LR "A.A. Jansson"

Buffalo Herd Plunging to Destruction / LR "Arthur A. Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 560
Scope and Contents

Drawing of buffalo leaping over cliff, with Indians at base with bows and arrows. Illustrations for Barnum Brown 9.5.69

Dates: 1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Buffalo Herd Plunging to Destruction / LR "Arthur A. Jansson"

Carl and Mary in Africa

 Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 24
Scope and Contents Filmed during the AMNH Eastman-Pomeroy-Akeley East African Expedition, 1926. In the opening sequence, Carl Ethan Akeley (associate in the AMNH Department of Mammalogy, and associate curator and adviser in the AMNH Department of Preparation) watches artist William R. Leigh painting habitat studies for the background of the klipspringer group, one of the dioramas now in the museum's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. At the campsite, located in the Lukenia Hills 40 miles east of Nairobi, Leigh...
Dates: 1926
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Carl and Mary in Africa

Giant Eland of the Southern Sudan / LR "Arthur A. Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 169
Scope and Contents

Two elands facing left, one with head up, one with head down eating in forest. To accompany article by Clark, James L. "The Giant Eland of Southern Sudan." Inscription: Canvas stamp. Frame: Black frame, 32 1/2 x 35 1/2.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Giant Eland of the Southern Sudan / LR "Arthur A. Jansson"

Gorillas of the Belgian Congo Forest / LL "Arthur A. Jansson"

 Item
Identifier: Art Survey No. 171
Scope and Contents

Gorilla family, male, female and baby on jungle floor. To accompany article by Raven, H.C. "Gorilla: The Greatest of All Apes." Frame: 35 1/2 x 35 1/2.

Dates: 1931
Found in: Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library / Gorillas of the Belgian Congo Forest / LL "Arthur A. Jansson"
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