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Seriality in the Making: The Osborn-Knight Restorations of Evolutionary History (2010)

History of Science
Volume: 48
Pages: 461--482

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century”
Language: English

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Evolution Painters and painting Science and art Paleontology 20th century United States Knight, Charles Robert Osborn, Henry Fairfield Field Museum of Natural History American Museum of Natural History, New York

The article focuses on the 28 murals created by author and illustrator Charles R. Knight (1874--1953) for the Chicago, Illinois Field Museum during the 1920s. The author focuses on the influence Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857--1935), curator of vertebrate palaeontology and later president of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, had upon Knight. Osborn referred to the murals as the Osborn-Knight restorations. Other subjects include evolutionary history, educational goals of museum exhibitions, and the relationship between science and art.

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Description Focuses on the murals created for the Chicago, Illinois Field Museum during the 1920s.

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Article Hopwood, Nick; Schaffer, Simon; Secord, Jim (2010) Seriality and Scientific Objects in the Nineteenth Century. History of Science (p. 251). unapi

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