Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter

The first career-spanning volume on Jay Matternes (b. 1933), whose scientific rigor and artistic skill set a new standard in natural history illustration. Millions have grown up inspired by Jay Matternes' murals of extinct mammals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. Others have savored his depictions of human origins in such prestigious publications as Science, National Geographic, Scientific American, and Natural History. Matternes' art has also graced popular books by such trailblazing wildlife scientists as Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Louis Leakey. Now, for the first time, the entire scope of Matternes' achievement is revealed in this full-color retrospective, prepared with the artist's full cooperation and featuring many works never before published. Here are his depictions of living species, whose anatomical accuracy and vivid detail owe much to Matternes' lifelong devotion to painting from nature: the wildlife of Africa, the birds of America, chimpanzees and gorillas, and more. Here, too, is his paleoart, meticulously reconstructed from the fossil evidence and ranging from dinosaurs, through the rise of mammals, to our hominid ancestors-including Matternes' groundbreaking reconstruction of the 4.4-million-year-old hominin Ardipithecus, on which he labored in secrecy for more than a decade. The highly readable text includes, among other special features, selections from the artist's twenty-year correspondence with the late Dian Fossey. Jay Matternes: Paleoartist and Wildlife Painter will be an essential volume not only for aspiring illustrators and paleoartists, but for anyone with an interest in the natural world and how we visualize it. AUTHORS: Richard Milner is an anthropologist and historian of science whose books include Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw through Time and Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z. An Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, Milner has appeared on the History Channel, Discovery, and NPR, and has been profiled in the New York Times and Time Out New York. Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History and a leading paleoanthropologist. Mauricio Anton is a celebrated paleoartist based in Spain. SELLING POINTS: . The first career-spanning volume on Jay Matternes (b. 1933), the influential paleoartist and wildlife artist who set a new scientific standard in the field . Matternes' accomplishments include his famous murals at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History; numerous illustrations for Science, National Geographic, and Scientific American; and collaborations with eminent scientists like Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Louis Leakey. . This book features beautiful color reproductions of Matternes' paintings of dinosaurs, extinct mammals, human ancestors, African wildlife, and more. Also features never-before-published excerpts from Matternes' twenty-year correspondence with Dian Fossey . Authored by Richard Milner, noted historian of science and Associate of the American Museum of Natural History. . Introductory biographical essay by Ian Tattersall, the eminent paleoanthropologist . Foreword by Mauricio Anton, one of the celebrated contemporary paleoartists influenced by Matternes

Table of Contents:
PALEOART’S RENAISSANCE MAN. 6 Foreword by Mauricio Antón INTRODUCTION: THE ART OF JAY MATTERNES. 8 By Richard Milner and Ian Tattersall CHILDHOOD DRAWINGS. 16 “Chimparillas,” Wild West, and Airmen at War ELEGANT UNGULATES. 18 Kudus, Big Horn Mountain Sheep, Bongo, Sable Antelope, Oryx ETERNAL ADVERSARIES. 22 Zorilla and Viper, Sketches for Lions vs Cape Buffalo, The Fight on the Pan, Two Cheetahs, Three Grizzlies ECOSYSTEMS INSIDE AND OUT . 28 Sonoran Desert Day and Night, American Prairie: Beneath Where Buffalo Roam, Mississippi River: Underwater Monsters HOMAGE TO HOUNDS. 34 Beagles, Pointer and Setter, Black Lab, Britts on Point BIRD-WATCHING. 37 Snowy Owls, Golden Eagles, Red-Tailed Hawks DUCK STAMP PAINTINGS. 40 MEDITATIONS ON ORANG-UTANS. 42 Zoo Drawings from Life, Anatomical Dissections, Orang with Hornbills in Forest Canopy JANE GOODALL’S CHIMPANZEES AND NOELL’S ARK. 48 Field Sketches at Gombe Stream Reserve, Violent Male Kills Baboon, Chimps’ Rain Dance, Man Fights Ape, Dissections of Chimpanzee, Anatomy of Human vs. Chimp GORILLA MY DREAMS. 56 TWO BROOKLYN GORILLAS. 58 ADVENTURES WITH THE GORILLAS OF KARISOKE. 62 Dian Fossey–Jay Matternes Correspondence, Sketching Wild Gorillas A POIGNANT PONGID PORTRAIT. 74 ENDING THE DREAM OF KONG. 76 DINOSAURS . 77 Bringing Back the Dinosaurs: Thescelosaurus, Monoclonius, Gorgosaurus, Triceratops, Ornitholestes, Struthiomimus, Plesiosaur and Elasmosaurus RESTORING SOME EARLY MAMMALS. 88 Restorations of Early Arboreal Mammals and Bear-Dog, Showing Fossil Skeletons, Musculature and Skin, Eocene Habitat. Smilodectes, Valpavis, Amphycyon, Diacodexis, Paramys, Earliest Known North American Mammal LARGE MAMMALS . 98 Cenozoic Murals, Uintatherium, Deinotherium (Early Elephants), Oligocene-Miocene Mural with Small Horses, Pelorovis in Mud Wallow, African Black Rhinos, When Olduvai Was Green. HOLD YOUR HORSES!. 106 Equine Evolution In Art FAIRBANKS MURAL. 112 Alaska Pleistocene Mural PRIMATES . 116 Early Lemurs, Monkeys and Apes (American Museum of Natural History Mural), Scaling the Family Tree: Movement Studies of Aegyptopithecus LEMURS . 124 Golden-Crowned Sifaka, Brown Lemur BABOONS . 126 Pleistocene Giant Baboons, Modern Olive Baboons, Art Deco Baboons THE SECRET OF ARDIPITHECUS. 130 How Matternes Restored A 4.4 Million-Year-Old Ethiopian Hominin: The Backstory PARANTHROPUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138 Paranthropus Family, Australopiths HOMININ HIGHLIGHTS HIPPO FEAST AT ILERET. 142 FAMILY FEAST. 146 DISMANTLING A ZEBRA. 147 HOMO ERECTUS AND PRAIRIE FIRE. 148 LAETOLI FOOTPRINTS. 150 ONCE WE WERE NOT ALONE. 152 MARATHON MAN . 154 AUSTRALOPITHS STEAL A HYENA’S KILL. 156 OLDUVAI LAKESHORE 1.8 MILLION YEARS AGO. 158 HOMO ERECTUS VS. PARANTHROPUS. 160 A FAMILY ALBUM. 162 A. Africanus, H. Habilis, H. Neanderthalensis THE NEANDERTHALS . 164 Reindeer Hunters On The River Vézère, Neanderthals in the Pyrenees GEORGIA ON MY MIND. 168 Dminisi Restoration ICE AGE BISON SCULPTURES OF THE TUC D'AUDOUBERT CAVES. 170 PATHFINDERS DARWIN’S HMS BEAGLE IN RIO HARBOR. 172 TEDDY ROOSEVELT AND JOHN MUIR IN YOSEMITE. 174 KILPATRICK SCOUTS OREGON TRAIL, NEBRASKA . 176 NATIVE AMERICANS. 178 Paleoindians Butchering Mastodon Carcass, Buffalo Jump, Pulling Even STORY TELLING. 184 Sioux Indian Village, 1880 LIST OF ARTWORKS . 190 INDEX . 192 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 194 ABOUT THE AUTHORS. 196 Richard Milner, Jay Matternes, Ian Tattersall, Mauricio Antón

About the Author :
Richard Milner is an anthropologist and historian of science whose books include Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw through Time and Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z. An Associate at the American Museum of Natural History, Milner has appeared on the History Channel, Discovery, and NPR, and has been profiled in the New York Times and Time Out New York. Ian Tattersall is Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History and a leading paleoanthropologist. Mauricio Anton is a celebrated paleoartist based in Spain.

Review :
"In conclusion, I have nothing but praise for this book. The production values are top-notch and I am so pleased that Milner both took his time to write this book, and was able to see it through to completion together with Matternes." - The Inquisitive Biologist