Charming the bones : a portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert / Ann Brimacombe Elliot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliot, Ann Brimacombe, 1937- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colbert, Margaret.

Artists--United States--Biography.

Artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, 2000.

Summary:

Born in 1911 to an unconventional, free-spirited artist mother and an eminent paleontologist father, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. She began her career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drawing fossil bones, and there she met her husband, the noted paleontologist Edwin (Ned) Colbert. Charming the Bones portrays Margaret's life as the wife of a famous man and the mother of five sons and, later in her life, as a respected restoration artist, illustrator, and sculptor. Margaret Matthew Colbert's paintings, drawings, and sculptures grace museums worldwide and enable the general public, as well as professional paleontologists, to visualize extinct creatures.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Childhood

3. Schools, Saturdays, Summers

4. Watershed

5· California

6. New York: Working at the Natch

7. Ned

8. Manhattan

9. Leonia and Motherhood

10. Hurricanes, Farms, and Forays

11. Artist in Leonia

12. A Year of Misery

13. Ghost Ranch

14. A Taste for Travel

15. South America

16. South Africa

17. India

18. Australia

19. Flagstaff

20. "A Place of Work and Sheer Delight

21. The Murals

22. Company and Family Matters

23. New Zealand: The Third Eye

24. Of Boats, Babies, Birds

25. Completing Circles

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63101-003-4