Dinosaurs in spring
May 16, 2026
Now that is spring, some more toy dinosaur photography in fresh green volliage.
Tag: Louis Marx toys
Knight’s 1897 hadrosaur
August 9, 2024
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 […]
A hadrosaur and Panoplosaurus
July 31, 2024
The next series in my project of reproducing Charles R. Knight paintings using the Louis Marx toys from the 1950s that used the paintings as models. The hadrosaur (duck billed dinosaur in this case an Edmontosaurus as it was reconstructed at the time). The second is the ankylosaur-clade Panoplosaurus (although the toy manufacturer called it […]
A day in the life of a pair of (toy) pterosaurs
July 25, 2024
This continues my project of photographing old Louis Marx toy dinosaurs. Most of the photographs are based on Charles R. Knight paintings. The Marx company, however, created these two as perching, probably easier to produce and for the children of the 1950s to play with. So here we have a day in the life of […]
Tracking a vintage toy Dimetrodon
March 12, 2019
On February 21, Parks Canada announced the discovery of fossilized tracks of the Permian sail-backed mammal like reptile Dimetrodon (Bathygnathus borealis) in the red rocks of Prince Edward Island. A Dimetrodon walked through mud about 290 million years ago. That inspired my next project to recreate the classic paintings by artist Charles R. Knight of […]
A vintage toy wooly mammoth
December 8, 2018
My latest vintage toy repaint, a 1950s Louis Marx Toys wooly mammoth, photographed in the first day of snow in Kitimat, BC, December 8, 2918. (Normally we get snow in the first week of November not the second week of December)
Recreating the Charles R Knight paintings with old Marx dino toys
October 11, 2018
Two Tyrannosaurus Rex hunt a triceratops in a recreation of the famous Charles R. Knight painting The original in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. A sabre tooth tiger (Smilodon), watches for prey in a recreation of the 1903 Charles R. Knight painting in the American Museum of Natural History. How the idea […]