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Book

Jay Matternes : paleoartist and wildlife painter

Call Number

  • 759.13 M4357M (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Abbeville Press, [2024]

Physical Description

196 pages : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm

Summary

"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 savored 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-color 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 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 labored in secrecy for more than a decade. The highly readable text includes, among other special features, selections from the artist's twenty-year correspondence with the late Dian Fossey. Jay 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 visualize it."--

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Paleoartist's renaissance man: foreword / Mauricio Antón
  • Introduction: the art of Jay Matternes / Richard Milner and Ian Tattersall
  • Childhood drawings
  • Elegant ungulates
  • Eternal adversaries
  • Ecosystems inside and out
  • Homage to hounds
  • Bird-watching
  • Duck stamp paintings
  • Meditations on orangutans
  • Jane Kodaly's chimpanzees and Noell's ark
  • Gorilla my dreams
  • Two Brooklyn gorillas
  • Adventures with the gorillas of Karisoke
  • A poignant pongid portrait
  • Ending the dream of Kong
  • Dinosaurs
  • Restoring some early mammals
  • Large mammals
  • Hold your horses
  • Fairbanks mural
  • Primates
  • Lemurs
  • Baboons
  • The secret of ardipithecus
  • Paranthropus
  • Hominin highlights. Hippo feast at Ileret ; Family feast ; Dismantling a zebra ; Homo erectus and prairie fire ; Laetoli footprints ; Once we were not alone ; Marathon man ; Australopiths steal a hyena's kill ; Olduvai lakeshore 1.8 million years ago ; H. habilis vs. paranthropus ; A family album
  • The Neanderthals
  • Georgia on my mind
  • Ice age bison sculptures of the Tuc d'Audoubert caves
  • Pathfinder. Darwin's HMS Beagle in Rio harbor ; Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite ; Fitzpatrick scouts Oregon trail, Nebraska ; Native American
  • Storytelling
  • List of artworks.

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