| Title: Penguins of the World
Contact: Jennifer Fairman, CMI
Description:
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| Title: The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: Mixed media editorial art created for the cover of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Museum Quarterly magazine to illustrate an article on the sudden extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although whimsical, the full time-lapse illustration (of which this is only half) represents a 15 million year span from before, during, and after the K-T boundary. Each animal, plant and reptile represents a particular individual or group of fauna and flora.
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| Title: Pronghorn Antelope
Contact: Chris Gralapp
Description: The Pronghorn is our only native antelope in the US.
Created for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: Tylosaurus mosasaur with Water
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description:
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| Title: Skeleton Still Life
Contact: Sean Twiddy
Description: A still life consisting of an anatomical model of the human skeleton, a cat skull, and a jar of insect specimens.
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| Title: Cranial View of Cat Skull
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Graphite dust illustration. Other views available
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| Title: Cashew
Contact: Rosemarie Schwab
Description: Anacardium occidentale. Fruit of the Cashew tree. From "Trees - An Explore Your World Handbook", Discovery Books, New York 2000.
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| Title: Cretaceous Firestorm
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: Cretaceous Firestorm depicts Pteranodons and various dinosaurs fleeing a fire in forested wetlands in North America caused by debris from the impact of an asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous period.
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| Title: Phalaenopsis Orchid (Moth Orchid)
Contact: Erica Beade
Description: This is a graphite drawing of a phalaenopsis orchid, also known as a moth orchid.
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| Title: Orchid Drawing - Phaelenopsis
Contact: Erica Beade
Description: This is a detail of a graphite drawing of a phalaenopsis orchid, also known as a moth orchid.
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| Title: Rod Shaped Bacteria
Contact: Science Picture Company
Description: A scanning electron micrograph of rod shaped bacteria. Anthrax, botulism and tetanus are all caused by rod shaped bacteria.
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| Title: Culex mosquito feeding
Contact: Diana Marques
Description: Culex pipiens, one of the most common species of mosquito, feeding on a human
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| Title: Leopard Frog Surface Anatomy
Contact: Ikumi Kayama
Description: Anatomical plate for a Frog Anatomy Lab Manual to be used by high school biology students.
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| Title: Anterior Knee
Contact: Sara Krause
Description: Line art depiction of the left anterior knee.
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| Title: Crocus
Contact: Gail Guth
Description: Mixed media illustration for artist's portfolio.
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| Title: Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis
Contact: Kate Fady-Rivera
Description: Illustration of an Eastern Redbud tree, Cercis canadensis for signage at Smithsonian National Zoo for a display on invasive plants and using native plants for replacement. Includes Redbud tree leaves, flowers and fruit.
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| Title: Birds! Assorted spot art illustrations
Contact: Elizabeth Morales
Description: Assorted spot art illustrations of birds that were incorporated into various graphs. Specific genus and species available upon request.
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| Title: Amon Geologic History Detail1
Contact: Cindy Shaw
Description:
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| Title: DNA Assembly
Contact: Dr Jon Heras
Description: An illustration of DNA assembly, which occurs spontaneously in cells. The bases bind together, creating the double-helix structure we are all familiar with.
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| Title: Cyclamen study
Contact: MaryBeth Hinrichs
Description: Watercolor and grisaille study of cyclamen sp.
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| Title: Corn fungicide
Contact: Alison Schroeer
Description: This botanical illustration was created by biological illustrator Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration. It shows a corn plant, Zea mays, receiving benefits from fungicide application. Benefits include reduction of fungal diseases, increased productivity and yield.
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| Title: Layers of the Earth
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: This Photoshop drawing shows the different layers that comprise the Earth. It was created for an article about how the S and P waves from earthquakes can reflect off the mantle-core boundary. You can see the published article here: scicom.ucsc.edu/SciNotes/0201/lo/earth/index.html
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| Title: Permafrost in the Arctic
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: A cut-away showing the layer of permafrost beneath the surface of arctic tundra, and the short root systems plants have to survive.
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| Title: Illustration of White Water Lily
Contact: Gina Mikel
Description: White Water Lily (Nymphaea odorata), watercolor pencil & watercolor illustration
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| Title: ortho-Aminobiphenyl 265
Contact: Pamela Gleave
Description: Photomicrograph of recrystallized ortho-Aminobiphenyl .
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| Title: Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle
Contact: Jane Whitney
Description: An illustration for Harcourt Achieve using Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator
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| Title: Chesapeake Bay Sea Grass Meadow
Contact: Taina Litwak
Description: Bay and estuary grass beds are critical to the health of costal waters. Sea grass meadows produce oxygen, absorb excess nitrogen and phosphorus, and provide food and shelter for many species including blue crab and stripped bass. They also hold the loose soils that make up bottom, reducing turbidity and contributing to water clarity.
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| Title: Attaching tag to anesthetized stoat
Contact: Consie Powell
Description: Anesthetized Mustela erminea, held in a human hand, for the attachment of an identification tag to the ear. Ink illustration from the book “The Natural History of Weasels and Stoats” by Carolyn King and Roger Powell, published by Oxford University Press, 2006.
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| Title: Grape phylloxera
Contact: Melisa Beveridge
Description: Gouache Trompe l'oeil telling the story of the ravages of grape phylloxera in France. This painting was inspired by the book : "The Botanist and the Vintner"
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| Title: Panda Yard Detail, Left
Contact: Frank Ippolito
Description: Detail of left side of Panda Yard interpretive panel commissioned by the National Zoo.
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| Title: Undersea Smoker
Contact: Chuck Carter
Description: This illustration shows how a smoker originates with water seeping into the interior towards the mantle where it is heated and blows out of fissures in undersea ridges.
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| Title: Hunting Mosasaurs
Contact: Steven Melendrez
Description: Hunting Mosasaurs with Ammonoidea
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| Title: Tree of life
Contact: John Megahan
Description: Diversity of Life. Main page for interactive museum exhibit.
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| Title: Ranid frogs of the Sonoran Desert region
Contact: Rachel Ivanyi
Description: Plains leopard frog, Rana blairi; Northern l. frog, Rana pipiens; Tarahumara frog, Rana tarahumarae; Chiricahua l. frog, Rana chiricahuensis; Lowland l. frog, Rana yavapaiensis; Relict l. frog, Rana onca; Ramsey Canyon l. frog, Rana subaquavocalis
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| Title: Green Swamp, NC. Longleaf Pine habitat
Contact: Michael Rothman
Description: The Green Swamp of North Carolina is a Nature Conservancy area encompassing some of the last remaining Wiregrass-Long Leaf Pine habitats of the American South East. The area is considered to be a region of enormous botanical biodiversity. The flora includes a substantial number of vanilloid orchids and carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap and the Yellow pitcher plant. The painting was prepared under the aegis of Dr. Ken Cameron of the New York Botanical Gardens.
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| Title: Phagocytosis
Contact: Jennifer Fairman, CMI
Description:
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| Title: Dragonfly illustration
Contact: Karen Johnson
Description: Green darner and Widow Skimmer dragonflies. Two traditional pieces of artwork (watercolor and mixed media) combined into one using Photoshop.
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| Title: Red Kangaroo
Contact: Chris Gralapp
Description: Created for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: Serrated stone point
Contact: Chris Sanders
Description: acrylic on film. One of 5 studies in spiculation series.
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| Title: Ear Model
Contact: Sean Twiddy
Description: Detail of cochlea structure of the human ear, from
an anatomical model.
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| Title: Horseshoe Crab (Limulus polyphemus)
Contact: Laurie O'Keefe
Description: Horseshoe Crab illustration created for North Carolina Museum of Natural History.
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| Title: Aesculapian Snake
Contact: Rosemarie Schwab
Description: Elaphe longissima. From "Reptiles & Amphibians - An Explore Your World Handbook", Discovery Books, New York 2000.
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| Title: Soil Decomposers
Contact: Marjorie Leggitt
Description: This pen and ink rendering illustrates some of the
critters of the living soil community. It is part of a
childrens activity. From Fulcrum Publishing:
Keepers of Life, Michael Caduto.
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| Title: Ordovician Endings
Contact: Gary Raham
Description: A scene from near the end of the
Ordovician depicting a baculite capturing
the jawless fish, Astraspis. Several
species of trilobites appear in the
foreground, along with a starfish. Several
sea lilies appear in the background.
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| Title: Collinsonia canadensis
Contact: Richard Rauh
Description: One of the illustrations in "A Guide to Wildflowers in Winter" by Carol Levine. Collinsonia is in the mint family and is characterized by persistent calices. A seed is shown.
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| Title: Gulf Frittilary & Passion Flower Vine
Contact: Dorothia Rohner
Description: Life cycle of the gulf fritillary, (Agraulis vanillae incarnata) and Passion Vine (Passiflora incarnata) Private commission. Watercolor.
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| Title: American Beaver Skull
Contact: Melisa Beveridge
Description: Created in gouache and silverpoint.
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| Title: Brain in Head
Contact: Science Picture Company
Description: An image of the head and neck showing the brain within the head.
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| Title: Cedar Waxwing Bombycilla
Contact: Carlyn Iverson
Description: Bird illustration. Cedar Waxwing, Bombycilla cedrorum. This bird is a vertebrate, feathered and warm-blooded. Egg-laying.
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| Title: Spinnerets of the Garden Spider
Contact: Diana Marques
Description: The spinnerets are the structures at the end of the spider abdomen that connect internally with the silk glands and project outside the secretions that combine to produce the web silk. This is a magnified view of the spinnerets of the common garden spider, Araneus diadematus.
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| Title: Pennsylvania Leatherwing
Contact: Ikumi Kayama
Description: Habitus image for an entomological atlas for scientists.
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| Title: Carotid Endarterectomy 1
Contact: Sara Krause
Description: Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) - exposure of the carotid artery.
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| Title: Variety of Flowering Dogwood Trees
Contact: Kate Fady-Rivera
Description: Illustration of varieties of Flowering Dogwood trees which include: leaves, autumn leaves with buds, flowers, fruit. Gouache on paper
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| Title: Mammals! Assorted spot art illustrations
Contact: Elizabeth Morales
Description: Assorted spot art illustrations of mammals that were incorporated into various graphs. Specific genus and species available upon request.
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| Title: Water Cycle
Contact: Jane Whitney
Description:
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| Title: Amon detail 2a
Contact: Cindy Shaw
Description:
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| Title: Building Blocks of Life (Lego DNA)
Contact: Dr Jon Heras
Description: Concept showing the “building blocks of life”, i.e. DNA, as being made out of individual bricks (yes, Lego again!). This was designed to represent genetic engineering and synthetic biology.
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| Title: Nephrolepis exaltata Bostoniensis
Contact: MaryBeth Hinrichs
Description: A relatively common Boston fern in an uncommon composition and an extensive study in stippling!
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| Title: Boxer dog portrait
Contact: Alison Schroeer
Description: This canine drawing of a boxer dog was created by biological illustrator Alison Schroeer of Schroeer Scientific Illustration. As a dog portrait, it would be useful in veterinary illustration, or as natural science artwork or pet art.
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| Title: Red Sea Urchin
Contact: Ben Smith
Description: Illustration in graphite and Photoshop for the book- Sustainable Sushi: A Guide for a Changing Planet by Casson Trenor
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| Title: Fossil leaf venation
Contact: Katura Reynolds
Description: These pen & ink drawings show the patterns of veins preserved in fossil leaves. The specimens were preserved in a volcanic ash, and an amazing amount of detail remains in the fossils, especially when drawn under the microscope.
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| Title: Theory's Role in Biology
Contact: Nicolle Rager Fuller
Description: Created for the National Academy of Sciences for their report on the role of theory in biology; from the basis of evolution, to metabolic pathways, ecology, biomechanics, genetics and more.
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| Title: Cattail Illustration
Contact: Gina Mikel
Description: Cattails (Typha latifolia), watercolor pencil & watercolor illustration
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| Title: ortho-Aminobiphenyl A15
Contact: Pamela Gleave
Description: Photomicrograph of recrystallized ortho-Aminobiphenyl .
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