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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ART AND SCIENCE IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM 89 stead of as far-reaching a discourage- ment. One of the first men to be drawn into the American Museum to help in the correla- tion of science and art was Charles R. Knight and the work w^as financed by the late Mr. J. Pierpont Mor- gan. He came in 1896 to make restorations of fos- sil animals under the supervision of Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn. He had always liked best to draw animals, although at sixteen years of age he had begun studying at the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, working in ornamental design and architecture. Also he had studied at the Archi- tectural League under George de Forest Brusli and Willard L. Metcalf. In fact he had spent three years at Lamb's design- ing stained glass win- dows, since those early days, but his interest al- ways lay in animal poi- traiture. All the old keepers at the Central Park Zoo re- member him w^hen he was a very small boy and was brought by his father on Saturdays to draw the animals. This was before the organization of the Zoological Park in the Bronx which bl'ought such large opportunities to him, with a freedom for work far in advance of that allowed in the zoological parks of Europe, where however he has done considerable study. It was while drawing at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris that his work was stimulated by the admiration of Gerome and Fremiet with whom he had personal acquiantance. In 189() when he came to the American ^Museum he brought a full equipment: mastery in the techniciue of pencil, water
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Arsinoitherium — Restoration of a herbivorous mammal. The scene is in Egypt on the site of the former Lake Moeris. There in the far-off Eocsne times flourished a multitude of strange animals. In the painting the Arsinoitherium, named in honor of the Egyptian queen, stands at bay warding off a snarling pack of wolflike mammals color and oil, and knowledge of the ana- tomical structure of living animals gained not from photographs but from life itself — these added to enthusiasm. His work that he began then and has continued

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