Here are images for the Lost Beauty: II- The Art of Museum Stories at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, New York and here are two time-lapse videos of the creation of three paintings: Cylinder seal from 2nd/3rd Early Dynasty Mesopotamia, seven-footed frog and blue-spotted salamander.
Pottery Sherd
53″ x 48″
AD 1300-1650,
Simmons Site, Elma, New York
Niagara Frontier Archaeological Project, 1959.
C20696.
Pendant
44″ x 48″
Kingfisher feathers, coral, metals
19th century
China
Gift of Chauncey J. Hamlin, 1954.
C18523.
Blue-eyed Mary (Extinct)
34″ x 48″
Collinsia verna
May 5, 1890,
Buffalo, New York.
Clinton Herbarium of the Buffalo Museum of Science
52866
Sea Mouse
30″ x 48″
Aphrodita aculeata
1891
Transfer from the Smithsonian Institution
Carrier Shell
48″ x 53″
Xenophora calculifera
Shell, stones
Nd. Indian Ocean
Donated by Mrs. J. D. Larkin, 1923.
No. 100:1:1,2
Basket
48″ x 48″
Plant fiber
Early 20th century
Pomo, California
Museum Exchange, 1940
C13455c
Earring
48″ x 55″
Rat tail, plant fiber
19th century
Kairuku Subdistrict, Papua New Guinea
P.G.T. Black Collection, 1938.
C11206
Zoomorphic Vessel
48″ x 48″
Ceramic
Pre-Columbian
Chiriqui Province, Panama
Museum Purchase, 1891
C1185
Cicada Type
36″ x 72″
Zammara medialinea
September 19, 1980
Aragua, Rancho Grande, Venezuela
Cricket Cage
48″ x 72″
Ivory
Early 20th century
China
Gift of Chauncey J. Hamlin, 1948
C16122
Cylinder Seal
48″ x 72″
Shell
2nd/3rd Early Dynasty
Mesopotamia [Modern Day Iraq]
Museum Purchase, 1943
C14403
Seven Footed Frog
60″ x 66″
Specimen preserved in fluid
Mussel (Extinct )
48″ x 72″
Epioblasma haysiana
Alabama
M365A-7
Eurypterid Fossil
42″ x 72″
Pterygotus cummings
Bertie Formation, Buffalo Cement Company Quarry, Buffalo, New York.
Collected by Lewis J. Bennett
E836/11321
Blue-spotted Salamander
36″ x 72″
Ambystoma laterale
August 25th, 1956
Harris Hill Road and Haskell Drive, Lancaster, New York.
Mrs. Eleanor Friert
A181
Installation shots of the exhibition at the Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY:
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