Exploratory works
Subtitle: drawings from the Department of Tropical Research field expeditions
By: organized by Mark Dion, Katherine McLeod, and Madeleine Thompson ; [with] contributions by Mark Dion, Richard Drayton, Katherine McLeod, George Schaller, and Madeleine Thompson
Contributors: Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
Series: Drawing papers -- number 132; Drawing papers -- 132.
Publisher: The Drawing Center
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780942324600
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Scientific expeditions; History; Animals; Pictorial works; Exhibitions; Natural history; Marine animals; Deep-sea animals; Natural history illustration; Natural history illustrators; Zoology; Research; New York Zoological Society. Department of Tropical Research; New York Zoological Society; Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.)
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition of illustrations from field expeditions of the New York Zoological Society's Department of Tropical Research, held at The Drawing Center, April 14-July 16, 2017.

Under director William Beebe, the Department of Tropical Research at the New York Zoological Society (now the Wildlife Conservation Society) conducted field expeditions to study tropical ecology and marine biology. (Introduction)

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by George Schaller; title: Introduction and timeline / Mark Dion, Katherine McLeod, and Madeleine Thompson; title: Interview with Richard Drayton / by Katherine McLeod; title: Original field texts. Excerpt from Exploring a tree and a yard of jungle (1916) / C. William Beebe ; Excerpt from Wild-animal painting in the jungle (1924) / Isabel Cooper ; Excerpt from Jungle studio (1945) / George Alan Swanson ; Excerpt from Notes on an undersea studio off Bermuda (1939) / Else Bostelmann ; Excerpt from A quarter mile down in the open sea (1930) / William Beebe ; Fish magic (1930) / Gloria Hollister.