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Milner Richard - Jay Matternes Paleoartist And Wildlife Painter - Hardcover
Milner Richard - Jay Matternes Paleoartist And Wildlife Painter - Hardcover
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Description: The first career - spanning volume on Jay Matternes (b. 1933) whose scientific rigor and artistic skill set a new standard in natural history illustration. Millions have grown up inspired by Jay Matternes murals of extinct mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. Others have savoured his depictions of human origins in such prestigious publications as Science National Geographic Scientific American and Natural History. Matternes art has also graced popular books by such trailblazing wildlife scientists as Jane Goodall Dian Fossey and Louis Leakey. Now for the first time the entire scope of Matternes achievement is revealed in this full - colour retrospective prepared with the artist's full cooperation and featuring many works never before published. Here are his depictions of living species whose anatomical accuracy and vivid detail owe much to Matternes lifelong devotion to painting from nature: the wildlife of Africa the birds of America chimpanzees and gorillas and more. Here too is his paleoart meticulously reconstructed from the fossil evidence and ranging from dinosaurs through the rise of mammals to our hominid ancestors including Matternes groundbreaking reconstruction of the 4.4 - million - year - old hominin Ardipithecus on which he laboured in secrecy for more than a decade. The highly readable text includes among other special features selections from the artist's 20 - year correspondence with the late Dian Fossey. Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter will be an essential volume not only for aspiring illustrators and paleoartists but for anyone with an interest in the natural world and how we visualise it.
Title: Jay Matternes Paleoartist And Wildlife Painter
Author(s): Milner Richard
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780789214805
Pages: 180 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Animals & Nature In Art (Still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc)
Description: The first career - spanning volume on Jay Matternes (b. 1933) whose scientific rigor and artistic skill set a new standard in natural history illustration. Millions have grown up inspired by Jay Matternes murals of extinct mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. Others have savoured his depictions of human origins in such prestigious publications as Science National Geographic Scientific American and Natural History. Matternes art has also graced popular books by such trailblazing wildlife scientists as Jane Goodall Dian Fossey and Louis Leakey. Now for the first time the entire scope of Matternes achievement is revealed in this full - colour retrospective prepared with the artist's full cooperation and featuring many works never before published. Here are his depictions of living species whose anatomical accuracy and vivid detail owe much to Matternes lifelong devotion to painting from nature: the wildlife of Africa the birds of America chimpanzees and gorillas and more. Here too is his paleoart meticulously reconstructed from the fossil evidence and ranging from dinosaurs through the rise of mammals to our hominid ancestors including Matternes groundbreaking reconstruction of the 4.4 - million - year - old hominin Ardipithecus on which he laboured in secrecy for more than a decade. The highly readable text includes among other special features selections from the artist's 20 - year correspondence with the late Dian Fossey. Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter will be an essential volume not only for aspiring illustrators and paleoartists but for anyone with an interest in the natural world and how we visualise it.
Title: Jay Matternes Paleoartist And Wildlife Painter
Author(s): Milner Richard
Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc. U. S.
Barcode: 9780789214805
Pages: 180 Pages
Publication Date: 8/13/2024
Category: Animals & Nature In Art (Still Life, Landscapes & Seascapes, Etc)
