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Artist Charles R. Knight drew on his vast experience depicting living animals to bring prehistoric creatures to life?a practice that made him keenly aware of the finality of extinction
?| March 26, 2012
Saber-toothed cat defends its kill from an encroaching Teratornis at the La Brea tar pits in this 1920s painting by Charles R. Knight.
Image: Charles R. Knight
You may not know his name, but chances are that you have seen his work. Brooklyn-born artist Charles R. Knight (1874?1953) produced paintings and sculptures of dinosaurs, mam?moths and prehistoric humans that adorn the great natural history museums in the U.S. His dinos have appeared as toys, stamps and comics, as well as in books and scientific journals on paleontology. One of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s illustrators swiped them for his 1912 novel The Lost World. Some even became movie stars, directly inspiring sequences in the 1933 King Kong and, more indirectly, Walt Disney?s 1940 Fantasia and Steven Spielberg?s 1993 Jurassic Park. Hollywood?s master monster animator Ray Harryhausen, creator of the dinosaurs in the 1966 One Million Years B.C. and other cult classics, based his stop-motion puppets on paint?ings and sculptures by Knight.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Richard Milner is an associate in the division of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His latest book is Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time (Abrams, 2012).
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