African field sketches of Donald Leo Malick 1969.

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African field sketches of Donald Leo Malick 1969.

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This collection contains the 86 watercolor and pencil field sketches of African birds made by wildlife artist Donald Leo Malick during a 1969 museum expedition to Botswana. The expedition was undertaken to do research and collect specimens for the Denver Museum of Natural History's Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Botswana Africa Hall (DMNH is now the Denver Museum of Nature & Science). Malick, who provided bird paintings for numerous publications, was known for the completeness of detail in his wildlife portraits. The sketches, made from observations in the wild and of freshly killed specimens, were to record the color of bird parts that normally fade at death. The sketches are quite detailed and contain notes in margins.

86 paintings.

Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Alfred M. Bailey Library

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Malick, Donald L.

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Donald Leo Malick was a Denver artist whose wildlife paintings have been published and displayed throughout the U.S., including at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS). Born in 1929 in Olean, NY, Malick served as a staff artist for the Denver Museum of Natural History (now DMNS) from 1962 to 1973. He illustrated a major portion of Birds of Colorado, by Bailey and Niedrach, and made three trips to Africa. His first was a journey to Botswana as part of a 1969 museum expedition. Malick ...

Denver Museum of Natural History

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Most of these records were transferred to the Archives from the Building Maintenance Department, although some later records come from the Exhibits Department. In 1996, the records were rehoused in chronological order and catalogued on Data Trek, the in-house library system, as well as on ARGUS, the Museum collections system. Among the architects who designed substantial portions of the present building are Frederick Junius Sterner, George Hebard Williamson, Roland L. Linder, and Stearns-Roger A...