I am continuing my project of taking photographs of my childhood Louis Marx models of dinosaurs and other ancient creatures.
Here is the toy pterosaur, Rhamphorhynchus, based on the famous painting by Charles R. Knight. The toy is repainted to match as possible to the painting.
In the 1950s, the Louis Marx toy company based its toy hadrosaur on one of Charles R. Knight’s first dinosaur images for the American Museum of Natural History, painted in 1897. The toy looks nothing like our modern understanding of the hadrosaur, although the image was still prevelant as late as the 1950s. Knight created […]
The next in my project series recreating Charles R. Knight paintings using the Louis Marx toys from my childhood. In this case, a Sabre-toothed Cat or smilodon stalks a ground sloth (probably Megatheriidae) Of all the toys I have painted for this project, for some reason the brown paints did not adhere completely in the […]
