Celebrity
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2015-05-13T17:25:14+00:00
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Extinct 1805. Range: Cape Province, South Africa. Speicimens in Lieden, Paris, Vienna and Stockholm Natural History Museums. Extinction due to habitat degradation from overgrazing and hunting. 50″ x 38″ Oil on canvas.
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Only one mounted specimen is known to be in existence, at the Paris’s Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle after living in the zoo there until 1868. Range: Thailand. (Rucervus schomburgki). Oil on linen. 33″x33″.
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(Macropus greyi) “Considered … to be the most elegant, graceful and swift species of kangaroo.†Extinct 1939. Range South-western Australia and Victoria. Oil on linen. 30″ x 21 1/2″. Painted from specimen in the Leiden Natural History Museum.
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Painted from specimen in the American Natural History Museum, New York. Thylacinus cynocephalus. Native to Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea. Extinct 1938.
Oil on canvas. 32″ x 60″
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Painted from Jean-Baptiste Oudry pastel drawing circa 1840. (See Getty Museum article link under Blog Updates for original source drawing.) Oil on linen. 18″ x 24″
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Painting study from Jean-Baptiste Oudry painting, Leopard. 1741. Schwerin, Staaatliches Museum. (Part of my Getty lecture series studies.) Oil on linen. 39″ x 39″.
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(Campephilus imperialis). Range: Mexico. Last sighted 1956. Considered critically endangered or extinct. Is or was the worlds largest woodpecker species.
Oil on linen. 37″ x30″ Painted from specimens in the London Natural History Museum.
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(Sceloglaux albifacies) Range: New Zealand. Reportedly attracted to violin music.
Oil on canvas. 32″ x 48″.
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Ailurus fulgens, “shining catâ€. Environmental status: vulnerable. Range: Nepal, India, China. Estimated population 11,000 to 20,000.
Tasmanian Tiger: extinct
Oil on linen. 25″ x42″.
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(Onychogalea lunata). Range: central Australia. Height: 15″ tall.
Painted from specimen in the Paris Natural History Museum.
Oil on canvas. 42″ x 34″.
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Equus quagga quagga. Range: South Africa. Last specimem died Amsterdam Zoo, 1883.
Acrylic, oil on canvas. 58″ x 42″.
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Pinguinus impennis. Range: New England to northern Spain. Flightless. 30″- 33″ tall. Painted from specimen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
Acrylic, oil on canvas. 31″ x56″.
