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Scientific Illustrations (Exhibition)
birth: 1955 May 10
death: 1955 June 5
Exhibition. Opened May 10, 1955 and closed June 5, 1955. Located in Section 5, Floor 2 in the Corner Gallery at the American Museum of Natural History. Scientific Illustrations featured approximately fifty years of work by the Museum's scientific illustrators, most originally created for the Museum's scientific publications.
Summary
Scientific Illustrations featured approximately fifty years of work by the Museum's scientific illustrators, most originally created for the Museum's scientific publications and featured more than sixty illustrations in pen and ink, pencil, and watercolor of amphibians, reptiles, anthropological objects, birds, fishes, fossils, insects, spiders, and mammals, which had originally appeared in Museum publications such as Novitates, Bulletins, and Anthropological Papers (1, p. 1).
Illustrations in the exhibition included (1, p. 1-2):
*Colored moths
*The underside of the foot of a Rocky Mountain goat
*Mouth-breeding fishes
*The oldest work on view, a 1902 black and white drawing of the skull of Hyophippus osborn
This is a condensed summary of the exhibition. For additional information, see Sources and/or Related Resources.