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[Rock study for the Klipspringer Group] [art original] / A.A. Jansson

 Item — Frame: 1
Identifier: Art Survey No. 872

Scope and Contents

Painting Jansson made during the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to British East Africa, 1926-1927. Detail of the Lukenia Hills, forty miles east of Nairobi, with weathered granite rocks and shrubs (possibly Boswellia pyrifera). Facsimiles of the rocks were made for the Kiplinger diorama in the American Museum of Natural History's Akeley Hall of African Mammals. Signed at lower left. On back of canvas: "P.20" (and "P 356" crossed out).

Dates

  • 1927

Creator

Extent

1 Item : painting : oil on canvas ; 84 x 56 cm., in frame 92 x 64 cm.

Related Materials

AMNH negative no. 311961.

Local note

Located in Special Collections, Art cart--bottom shelf.

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
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Repository Details

Part of the Research Library Special Collections Repository

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