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[Celebration of the Year of the Horse]
Chinese painting in celebration of the year of the horse, presented to Prof. Osborn by Dr. Bashford Dean. It was once one continuous strip; it was cut, mounted and framed for Osborn Library ca. 1944.
Originally one painting cut into 8 pieces and framed. Each strip shows different scenes of horses in herds, standing, running, squatting; one is of deity sitting on clouds; clouds and horses around him.
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) / Behind subject's shoulder "M. Flinsch Buba 1938"
Portrait bust of Henry Fairfield Osborn, Paleontologist and AMNH President from 1908-1933. Inscription: On base plate "For Him the Dry Bones Came to Life/and Giant Forms of Ages Past/Rejoined the Pageant of the Living." On marble base "Joy Flinsch Buba/1942".
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) portrait
Painting of man in his academic robe, holding book, 3/4 view. Inscription: Frame plate "Henry Fairfield Osborn/Fourth President/of the/American Museum of Natural History/February 10, 1908". Osborn was A.M.N.H. President from 1908 to 1933, paleontologist, naturalist, author; growth of museum and its collections are attributed to him.
Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857-1935) / Subject's left shoulder "Chester Beach 1917"
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