Ornithology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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John R. Quinn Illustrations
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ANSP-Coll-0730
Overview
John R. Quinn, 1938-, artist and naturalist, was an Academy employee in the exhibits department. Quinn spent the month of March in 1968 working on illustrations for De Schaunsee's A guide to The Birds of South America. The collection contains thirty acrylic paintings of South American birds: nineteen in color, eleven in black white. The figures were done from study skins in the Academy's collection pluslive birds mist-netted in Trinidad, as well as notes and sketches supplied by Don...
Dates:
1970