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Dedication and Art Show
“Ice Age Fremont”
The Natural History Museum has a new oil painting that was unveiled September 15-17 2006
with a reception and art show. The event was very successful and
now we have the " Irvingtonian Landscape" hanging in the Wes Gordon
Fossil Hall.
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Irvingtonian Landscape |
P aleoartist Laura Cunningham has a
Bachelors degree in Paleontology from U.C. Berkeley and a graduate
certificate in Natural Science Illustration from U.C Santa Cruz. She is
interested in reconstructing past landscapes and ecology, and so has
combined the study of art with the science of wildlife biology, having
worked for the California Department of Fish and Game, United States
Geological Survey- Biological Research Division, and National Park
Service, to better study the animals she depicts, while teaching herself
oil painting techniques based on 19th century European and American
schools of landscape painting (such as the Hudson River school artists)
in order to bring the scenes to life. She is currently writing and
illustrating a book on the ecological history of California during the
last 10,000 years.
Many of her prints will be on sale
with a portion of the sale going to the Math Science Nucleus. See a
preview of some of her prints.
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