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New York Zoological Society Wild Animal Paintings (Exhibition)
birth: 1940 November 24
death: 1941 January 31
Exhibition. Opened November 24, 1940 and closed January 31, 1941. Located in the Education Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. The New York Zoological Society Wild Animal Paintings Exhibition featured the New York Zoological Society's collection of paintings of North American mammals and birds that were either endangered or extinct.
Summary
The New York Zoological Society Wild Animal Paintings Exhibition featured the New York Zoological Society's collection of paintings of North American mammals and birds that were either endangered or extinct (1, p. 1-2)
Artists and exhibited works (1, p. 2):
*Rosa Bonheur: Portrait of a Lioness
*Charles Livingston Bull: Black Wolf
*A. Radclyffe Dugmore: Waterhole in Northern Kenya
*Louis Agassiz Fuertes: American Flamingo at Home, Whooping Crane
*R. Bruce Horsfall: The California Condor at Home, Pallas Cormorant, The Great Auk
*Charles R. Knight: Snow Leopard, Jaguar
*Carl Rungius: The Mountaineers (Bighorn Sheep), Wary Game (Alaskan White Sheep), White Mountain Goat, The Days of the Bison Millions, Alaskan Moose, Grant Caribou, Mule Deer in Bad Lands, Prong-Horned Antelope, White-Fronted Musk Ox, Northern Elephant Seal, Townsend's Fur Seal, American Elk, In His Prime (Elk, Wyoming), Polar Bear, Alaskan Brown Bear, Silver-Tip Grizzly Bear, An Old Prospector (Grizzly Bear), American Black Bear, Rocky Mountain Puma, Gray Wolf, Portrait of a Lion, Young Gorilla, "Dinah", Bay Lynx, Wolverine, Red Fox, Gray Fox, Canada Lynx, White Tailed Deer
This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.