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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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The American Museum Journal Volume XIV MARCH, 1914 Number 3 CHARLES R. KNIGHT —PAINTER AND SCULPTOR OF ANIMALS WITH AN INTRODUCTION RELATIVE TO THE UNION SCIENCE IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM Illustrations 1 from the canvases of the Artist OF ART AND THERE are many people who know something of the Ameri- can Museum of the past — of its small beginning in the Arsenal in Central Park and its change to the new building, the central wing of the present structure; of its many years of strictly technical exhibits, systematic collections like some still to be seen as in the North American bird hall; of the addition of the south facade and the west wing and the gradual intro- duction of exhibits more adapted to the needs and the pleasure of the peo- ple. We know that the construction of its buildings has al- ways been in the hands of architect* of a high order, that its exhibits have been under the supervision of a staff of more or less note ;n the scientific world. Do we know that now its exhibits and the newly-planned east facade of the build- 1 Illustrations copyrighted by the American Museiim of Natural History, the Century Com- pany and Charles R. Knight.
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Leopard drawing ing are calling to the work not only scientists, not only architects, but also various noted representatives from the guild that has the creation of the beau- tiful its aim — namely, sculptors and painters. It is interesting in this con- nection that almost the first step toward the foundation of science museums in this country was made in Philadelphia at the close of the eighteenth century l)y Charles Wilson Peale, an artist who had first been a taxidermist. He was a man of fame as a portrait paint- er of the great men of his time, and by painting a portrait of himself in his museum he made this early step toward science mu- seums an unforget- able one in history. This picture is reproduced through the courtesy of the Penns3^1vania Academy of Fine Arts. To-day in the American Museum Hobart Nichols, one of our rising land- scape painters, is continually called upon to paint large background canvases for cycloramic groups, and similar work is 83 Property of the Artist showing pencil technique

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