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The Art of Charles Knight
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Hall of the Age of Man
Megatherium
Restoration painting
Smilodon
Vertebrate Paleontology
Vultures
Asset ID
ptc-4948
Title
Rancho La Brea Tar Pit
Description
Mural, Pacific coast (La Brea Tar Pits fauna near Los Angeles), sabre-tooth tiger (smilodon), ground sloth, columbian mammoth, extinct vulture, canis dirus. Sloths stuck in tar pits being attacked by smilodons, vultures watching from trees, wild dogs and mastodons in distance, mountains in background. The mural hung in the Hall of the Age of Man [1921-1966].
Agent (Role)
Finnin, Denis
(
Photographer
),
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953
(
Artist
)
Date Free Text
1921 (created), 1993 (photographed)
Artwork/Object Type
Paintings
Physical dimensions
108 x 300 in.
Collection/Work Relation
AMNH Special Collections, Art Survey No. 1143: Rancho La Brea Tar Pit, Charles R. Knight, 1921.
, AMNH Special Collections, Photographic Transparency Collection, 4 x 5: 4948
External Resource
AMNH Library authority record:
Knight, Charles Robert 1874-1953
Alternate Versions
Photographic Negative Number: 39442
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