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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service ― The Federal Duck Stamp Program: “Retrievers Save Game” by Maynard Reece, 1959-60
Black and white wash and tempera drawing of a Labrador retriever carrying a Mallard by Maynard Reece, the first artist to win the competition three times.
Inscription: Front - “U.S. Department of the Interior. Void after June 30, 1960. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp. $3. Retrievers Save Game.” Back - “Duck Stamps dollars buy wetlands to perpetuate waterfowl. It is unlawful to hunt waterfowl unless you sign your name in ink on the face of this stamp.” (more)
• Sep 11, 2010 link notes tagged: art stamp United-States vintage animal dog retriever game bird duck wildlife engraving hunting meat
✖ Via Smithsonian Journeys: The Division of Birds storage facility in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Photo: Chip Clark
“This image, Chip Clark’s most requested photo, shows Roxie Laybourne, Smithsonian research associate, in front, with Birds Division collections staff members Beth Ann Sabo, James Dean, Bonnie Farmer, and Dawn Arculus, in 1992. The Museum holds the largest collection of vertebrate specimens in the world, with over 5.8 million specimens representing fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Photo by Chip Clark, Smithsonian Institution” (more)
About Chip Clark:
“Chip Clark came to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1973, with a degree in biology and an interest in photography. He has been a photographer on staff ever since, documenting thousands of specimens and exhibits, and accompanying scientists on research trips around the world. He has photographed everything from dinosaurs and mummies to diamonds, butterflies, and, of course, his fellow staff members. In the field he has photographed in caves in Jamaica, the rainforest in Peru, the coral reefs in Belize, and on the ocean floor in a deep-sea submersible off the Bahamas. He thrives on the challenges of photographing the natural world in its environment, no matter what the conditions.” (“Chip Clark: Museum Photographer for More Than Thirty-Five Years”)
• Aug 08, 2010 link notes tagged: class,c art photograph photographer museum animal bird lassification taxonomy epistemology order biology zoology
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Lady, That’s My Skull: New Universities Dictionary Illustrated, 1922
The book is all but disintegrated from age and weathering but I managed to save the artwork. No artist information can be found in the book though there seems to be a signature on the Plumage page. I can’t determine if that is the artist name or the previous owner of the book.
• Aug 07, 2010 link notes tagged: art illustration encyclopedia taxonomy classification class order epistemology animal bird world
