Leigh, William Robinson, 1866-1955
Person
Dates
- Existence: September 23, 1866 - March 11, 1955
Summary
Artist
Worked at the American Museum of Natural History and participated in several expeditions before being hired to work on background dioramas for African Mammals Hall.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Art Survey No. 655: [Mt. Mikeno from Gorilla Group], [1927]
Item — Container: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 655
Scope and Contents
Study for the Mountain Gorilla Group. Jungle and verdant valley in foreground, view of volcano in background.
Dates:
[1927]
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
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
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New York, NY 10024-5192