Re: Charles Knight paintings, old paleo-photos, cover to NGPM

[Danvarner@aol.com]

MEGAVENATOR1985@MSN.COM (Mark Foster) writes:
 
<< Moving on, I found this website on my many rounds through the net. It has 
lots of photos of old prehistoric mammal mounts, sedimentary locales, and lots 
of maps. But more importantly, it has some beautiful paintings of various 
tertiary mammals [the true gem is the brontothere painting]. >>

       Thanks for the information, Mark. I'd almost forgotten Knight's 
drawing of various titanothere heads from the Osborn monograph. It's a classic 
example of Knight working from carefully lit scuptures (as is the oil painting 
you 
admire): http://geology.cwru.edu/~huwig/catalog/slides/714.D.8.jpg
       There is another group of little-known Knight restorations in 
W.B.Scott's _A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere_. A series of 
South 
American forms, they were done in monochrome watercolor. They were painted in 
1905, a period when he was doing some of his best work. They've been at 
Princeton University ever since. When he began his murals in about 1916, his 
style 
became much more formal and decorative. DV