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| Steve's Flag Expedition will revisit the actual site of the American Museum of Natural History's Mountain Gorilla diorama in the Virunga volcanoes in Africa with the intent of documenting the changes that have occurred in the diorama and its painted background scene.
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 Stephen C. Quinn
SAA, AFC
Wildlife Art, Natural History Dioramas |
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Following are a list of links to relevant and interesting Web sites. If you would like to exchange links,
please send an email to stephencquinn@aol.com along
with your Web site name, address (URL) and a descriptive sentence.
- As Natural Looking As Nature Itself
An iconic museum restores its famous Hall of North American Mammals.
USA Today, March 2012.
- Behind the Glass, Primping Up Some Old Friends
Dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of North American Mammals are being restored to ever more lifelike conditions.
- How an Artist Saved the Mountain Gorilla: Retracing the Steps of Carl Akeley
Artists for Conservation's first documentary film "How an Artist Saved the Mountain Gorilla - Retracing the steps of Carl Akeley". As screened at the 2011 Artists for Conservation Festival in North Vancouver, BC, Canada
- In the Background: Art You May Never Notice
- Inside the Dioramas: Restoring the Hall of North American Mammals
Over the last few months, an expert team of conservators and Museum artists have led the restoration of the dioramas of the Hall of North American Mammals, which first opened in 1942 and has offered generations of Museum visitors spectacular views of North America's natural heritage. Iconic scenes depicted here, based on precise field observations, include the moose and brown bears of Alaska, the mountain lions in the Grand Canyon, and the wolves of Gunflint Lake, Minnesota.
This is the first in a series of inside looks at the comprehensive restoration and conservation process, which will be completed by fall of 2012.
- NYTimes Article-Quinn's AFC Akeley Mountain Gorilla Expedition
Follow-up article detailing the accomplishments of the expedition.
- Residents Create a Backyard Habitat in Ridgefield Park
- Ridgefield Park Couple Plan to Build a Nature Sanctuary Next Door
- Rounding Up Nature to Preserve Under Glass
In Stephen Christopher Quinn's world cheetahs roam the forest's edge near the Zambezi River in Mozambique, scimitar-horned oryx and dama gazelles feed in the Libyan desert, wolves hunt down white-tailed deer at night on a lake in Minnesota and moose lock antlers in Alaska. All perfectly at home, just off Central Park.
By WILLIAM L. HAMILTON
Published: April 6, 2006
- Stephen C. Quinn - Museum Arts
The artist's personal web site.
- Stephen C. Quinn on Facebook
Follow Stephen Quinn on Facebook.
- Steve Quinn's AFC Flag Expedition #11: How An Artist Saved the Mountain Gorilla
Steve's expedition to the Democratic Republic of Congo to locate famous artist/conservationist Carl Akeley's gravesite and the site of his renowned natural history diorama featuring the Mountain Gorilla.
- Steve Quinn's AFC Flag Expedition Blog
Day-to-day journal as the expedition unfolded.
- Stories from the Heart of the Land
PR audio interview with Stephen Quinn.
- Video: Windows on Nature - by Stephen C. Quinn
Times reporter William Hamilton gets an inside look at dioramas from Stephen Quinn, lead curator of the American Museum of Natural History. (Producer: Brent McDonald)
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