01/24/2023
Episode #61 Bringing The Prehistoric Back to Life with Master Muralist Jay Matternes
Dave and Ray talk to one of Ray's art heroes, the master muralist and anatomist Jay Matternes, the artist responsible for many of the iconic artworks seen in the Time-Life Books and National Geographic Magazine. He painted six HUGE murals over the course of 15 years that adorned the walls of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
LINKS
A beautiful Mandrill
Jay’s website
Jay on Wiki
Meet the master muralist!
The book about Jay's Smithsonian Murals by Matt Carrano and Kirk Johnson
Dale Guthrie, The Nature of Paleo Art
Alaskan Wildlife artist Bill Berry's website
The great early-human paleontologist, Dr. Louis Leakey
Afrochoerus, The curious case of the non-existant forest pig with impossible tusks
Dog teeth pre-mammals Cynodonts
The reptilian pre-mammal Fossils from the Karoo
Herculaneum, the other Pompeii
11 years working on Ardipithecus, your great great great great grandma
Lucy in the sky with hominds, Australopithecus
Anthropologist Owen Lovejoy
First evidence of Hominid tool use at 3.3 mya
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Giraffe necked Camel, the Alticamelus
Platytbelodon, the shovel tusked Elephant
The Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum
MUSIC
Luminescent Tie Dye by the Amish Robots
Sleep on My Feet by Whiskey Class
A.P. Karpinsky by Russell Wodehouse
Taxi by Revilla
Summertime by the Amish Robots
Slipstream by Don Kenoyer