natural-history

Believing that natural-history books often provided inaccurate drawings of large quadrupeds like zebras, the self-taught artist devoted his leisure time to making portraits of his own.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011

Rather than the eternal present that natural-history museum dioramas suggest, many of the works here look to the past, whether with nostalgia, regret or a mixture of both, or to a surreal alternative present.

A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011

But while wildlife is at the core of our brand, NGC actually has had only a small percentage of natural-history programming among the diverse topics that we have covered.

National Geographic Launches New Channel Nat Geo Wild in US « Art & Business of Motion 2010

John Reeves collection A drawing of an Asian Leopard cat, from the 1820s John Reeves arrived in Canton, China, in 1812 as an assistant tea inspector for the British East India Co. and soon began commissioning andcollecting natural-history illustrations.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011

Hayes drawing of a tarantula A number of men stationed with the British East India Co. became collectors of natural-history art.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011

On Tuesday, Sotheby's will hold its first natural-history auction in Paris, anchored by a 33-foot-long skeleton of an Allosaurus, the older, smaller cousin to the Tyrannosaurus Rex that roamed North America roughly 150 million years ago.

Big Dig 2010

Dave Madden's engagingly offbeat study, "The Authentic Animal," lets us in on the bizarre and sometimes repellent world of taxidermy from its earliest beginnings legend has it that the Medicis kept a mounted rhinoceros as part of their natural-history collection in Florence to the present.

Wildlife Without Life Elizabeth Lowry 2011

Rather than the eternal present that natural-history museum dioramas suggest, many of the works here look to the past, whether with nostalgia, regret or a mixture of both, or to a surreal alternative present.

A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011

Homeowner Joseph Sisca Jr., an avid hunter, says it's his very own natural-history museum.

Animal Museum And, Oh, a House Maya Pope-Chappell 2011

In her new book "Art and Nature" Greystone Books, 2011, Judith Magee provides a continent-by-continent survey of the development of natural-history art over the past 300 years, drawing from the vast collections of the Library of the Natural History Museum in London.

Up Close With Fur and Feathers 2011