Jay Matternes
His work recreating early mammals from the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs was widely published in the 1950s and '60s, including in the Time Life Books series. His work is in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Natural History. His restorations frequently appeared in magazines such as National Geographic and Time, making him among the best-known scientific illustrators.
Also recorded as Jay Howard Matternes
Jay Matternes
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- Name
- Jay Matternes
- Known for
- Paleoart and painting
- Birthplace
- Philippines
- Born
- 1933 · Philippines.
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- paleoart
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His work recreating early mammals from the Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs was widely published in the 1950s and '60s, including in the Time Life Books series. His work is in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History and the National Museum of Natural History. His restorations frequently appeared in magazines such as National Geographic and Time, making him among the best-known scientific illustrators.
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Six Matternes murals were removed during renovations from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in 2014, and several are planned to be reinstalled when renovations to the museum's Fossil Hall are scheduled to be completed in 2019. Matternes was born in the Philippines and lives in Fairfax, Virginia. He is also known for his paintings of birds.
In the distance, the meandering course of the ancient Niobrara River is marked by a sparse gallery forest of cottonwoods, elms, sycamores, and willows Cedars predominate in the arroyo in the middle ground, where they are protected from winds that sweep across the plains A small herd of three-toed grazing horses, the Merychippus, race across the prairie toward the arroyo One Merychippus, in the imm
Jay Matternes
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• Name — Jay Matternes • Known for — Paleoart and painting • Website — https: www.jay-matternes.com • Birthplace — Philippines
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