Rancho La Brea Tar Pit by Charles R. Knight
ptc-4948
Rancho La Brea Tar Pit by Charles R. Knight
1921
Paintings
108 x 300 in.
Mural, oil painting. Pacific coast (La Brea Tar Pits fauna near Los Angeles), sabre-tooth tiger (smilodon), ground sloth, columbian mammoth, extinct vulture, canis dirus. Sloths stuck in tar pits being attacked by smilodons, vultures watching from trees, wild dogs and mastodons in distance, mountains in background. The mural hung in the Hall of the Age of Man [1921-1966].
AMNH Special Collections: Photographic Transparency Collection, Transparency number: 4948
AMNH Special Collections, Art Survey No. 1143: Rancho La Brea Tar Pit, Charles R. Knight, 1921.
AMNH Library authority record: Knight, Charles Robert 1874-1953
AMNH Library catalog record: Rancho La Brea Tar Pit
AMNH Library authority record: Hall of the Age of Man
American Museum of Natural History Library
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Photographic Negative Number: 39442
Art Survey Number: 1143
Bibliographic Number: b10011420
American Museum of Natural History
Collection
Citation
Knight, Charles Robert, 1874-1953 (artist), “Rancho La Brea Tar Pit by Charles R. Knight,” AMNH Research Library | Digital Special Collections, accessed April 25, 2024, https://lbry-web-007.amnh.org/digital/items/show/91097.