. The American Museum of Natural History : pictorial guide. American Museum of Natural History; Natural history museums. the North Pole, to Florida and from the Gaspe Peninsula to the Alaska Peninsula. The creation of the backgrounds be- gins in the field, where an artist photo- graphs and sketches the site to be reproduced. At the Museum, a small model is made of the habitat group, and the positions of the foreground objects are changed until the desired effect is achieved. Only then does the artist paint the background of the full-scale group. Paintings are merged with three-dimen- sional ob
. The American Museum of Natural History : pictorial guide. American Museum of Natural History; Natural history museums. the North Pole, to Florida and from the Gaspe Peninsula to the Alaska Peninsula. The creation of the backgrounds be- gins in the field, where an artist photo- graphs and sketches the site to be reproduced. At the Museum, a small model is made of the habitat group, and the positions of the foreground objects are changed until the desired effect is achieved. Only then does the artist paint the background of the full-scale group. Paintings are merged with three-dimen- sional objects in the foreground to pro- duce the realistic effects shown here. JAGUARS WAPITI. RIGHT: GRIZZLY BEAF. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original American Museum of Natural History. New York : American Museum of Natural History
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