Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen: The Art of Charles R. Knight (Exhibition)

Exist Dates

1988 September 30 - 1989 January 31

Biographical or Historical Note

abstract

Exhibition. Opened September 30, 1988 and closed January 31, 1989. Located in the Naturemax Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen: The Art of Charles R. Knight, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and guest curator Sylvia Czerkas, featured 75 paintings and illustrations and eight sculptures by the artist.

Summary

Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen: The Art of Charles R. Knight, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and guest curator Sylvia Czerkas, featured 75 paintings and illustrations and eight sculptures by the artist. For 40 years, Charles R. Knight created lifelike restorations of extinct animals for the American Museum of Natural History (1, p. 1-2).

Highlights (1, p. 2):

*Sculpture showing two Drytosaurus engaged in battle

*Paintings of dinosaurs, early mammals, and early birds from the Museum's collections

*Illustrations for Knight's book Life Through the Ages

*Paintings used to illustrate a 1942 National Geographic article

*Sculptural models for the Museum and private collections, including a wooly mammoth and bronzes of a Neanderthal and a Tyrannosaurus rex

This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.

Sources

American Museum of Natural History. Press Release. "'Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen' Recreates Prehistoric World; Exhibition of Art of Charles R. Knight to Open Here Sept. 30." September 9, 1988 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. Naturemax Gallery.
Location of exhibition 1988 September 30 – 1989 January 31 (1, p. 1)

Czerkas, Sylvia Massey
Curator of exhibition (1, p. 2)

Knight, Charles Robert 1874-1953
Featured artist (1)

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Institutional partner; organized exhibition (1, p. 2)

Related Resources

Agathaumas [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1897

[Allosaurus] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight].
Date of resource: [1907?]

American Museum of Natural History. Annual Report. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1988-1989: 45-46, 53.

American Museum of Natural History photographic drawers
Repository: AMNH Special Collections [Black and white contact sheets of exhibition on view]

American Museum of Natural History press releases, 1933-1990s.
Includes "'Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen' Recreates Prehistoric World; Exhibition of Art of Charles R. Knight to Open Here Sept. 30." September 9, 1988; Museum Programs & Exhibitions Calendar for October 1988-January-June 1989.

[Arsinoitherium attacked by pterodons] [art original] / Charles R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1907

[Borophagus] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1902

[Coryphodons] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1898

Dinosaurs, mammoths and cavemen : the art of Charles R. Knight / Sylvia Massey Czerkas & Donald F. Glut ; foreword by Edwin H. Colbert.
Date of resource: 1982

subjectOf

Dinosaurs, Mammoths and Cavemen: the Art of Charles R. Knight exhibition photographic slides, 1989. American Museum of Natural History Library Special Collections.

Dryptosaurus [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1897

[Eobasileus] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1896]

Hadrosaurs [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1897]

[Hyracodon] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1896]

[Ichthyosaurus] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1902]

Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953
Works included in exhibition: A Loess Storm on the Pampas of Argentina; Anatosaurus; Apatosaurus; Baluchitherium; Columbian Mammoths; Cro-Magnon Artists of Southern France; [Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus]; [Dinictis chasing Protoceras]; Elasmosaurus; Elotherium; Hoplophoneus; Imperial Mammoth; Mastodon, Royal Bison, and Horse on the Missouri River; Mesonyx; [Mosasaur]; Neanderthal Flintworkers; The Neolith Stag Hunters; Phenacodus; Phororhacos; Platygonus; Serridentinus; Smilodon; Teleoceras; T-Rex and Triceratops Family; [Two Eocene Hyaenodonts]; Warren Mastodon; Wooly Rhinoceros and Saiga Antelope in a Glacial Winter

Life through the ages, written and illustrated by Charles R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1946

[Metamynodon] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1896]

[Ornitholestes catching an Archaeopteryx] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1903

[Patriofelis and crocodile prey] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1896]

[Prehistoric animals] [art reproduction] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1946?]-[1950?]

[Protoceras] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: [1896]

[Stegosaurus] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1901

[Woolly mammoth] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight].
Date of resource: [1909?]

[Woolly mammoth and hunter] [art original] / Chas. R. Knight.
Date of resource: 1909

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