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Scientific expeditions, History, Animals, Pictorial works, Exhibitions, Natural history, Marine animals, Deep-sea animals, Natural history illustration, Natural history illustrators, Zoology, Research, New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research, New York Zoological Society, Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)People
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Exploratory works: drawings from the Department of Tropical Research field expeditions
2017, The Drawing Center
in English
0942324609 9780942324600
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Table of Contents
Foreword / by George Schaller
Introduction and timeline / Mark Dion, Katherine McLeod, and Madeleine Thompson
Interview with Richard Drayton / by Katherine McLeod
Original field texts. Excerpt from Exploring a tree and a yard of jungle (1916) / C. William Beebe ; Excerpt from Wild-animal painting in the jungle (1924) / Isabel Cooper ; Excerpt from Jungle studio (1945) / George Alan Swanson ; Excerpt from Notes on an undersea studio off Bermuda (1939) / Else Bostelmann ; Excerpt from A quarter mile down in the open sea (1930) / William Beebe ; Fish magic (1930) / Gloria Hollister.
Edition Notes
Catalog of an exhibition of illustrations from field expeditions of the New York Zoological Society's Department of Tropical Research, held at The Drawing Center, April 14-July 16, 2017.
Under director William Beebe, the Department of Tropical Research at the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) conducted field expeditions to study tropical ecology and marine biology. (Introduction)
Includes bibliographical references.
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