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Douglas Henderson
Art Associate
Doug Henderson launched his career as natural history artist in 1977 after he hiked the Continental Divide Trail from Mt. Robson Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada to Yellowstone National Park. Doug taught himself to draw while sketching landscapes of the Yellowstone region. In 1979, Doug relocated to Bozeman, Montana to attend art classes at Montana State University. Three years later, Doug was commissioned to illustrate a children’s book on nesting duckbill dinosaurs. Doug has worked as a free-lance natural history illustrator, specializing in Earth History and book illustration, ever since. Doug’s interest in paleontology stems from his major in geology the first years of undergraduate school. Doug received B.A. in 1973 from the University of Kentucky in Physical Education, and an A.D. from Lexington Technical Institute in 1976. Doug has joined Syncreta Associates to pursue his interest in creating fine artwork that reflects Earth’s history for museum exhibitions.
Doug's Profile
Illustrations on Exhibit  •  Other Relevant Experience  •  Published Illustrations  •  Education  •   Gallery


Illustrations on Exhibit
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
The Hall of Fossils: Evolution of Life and Land, 2004

Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY, 2004
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Los Angles, CA
Dinosaurs, A Global View, 1990 (traveling exhibit)
Dinosaurs Past and Present, 1986 (traveling exhibit)


Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT
Living with Dinosaurs, 1991 (temporary exhibit)

Museum of the Rockies and the Petrified Forest Museum Association
Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 1989-1991 (traveling exhibit)
The Art of Scientific Illustration, 1984


Boston’s Museum of Science, Boston, MA, 2002

State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, 1998

Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
Makoshika State Park, Glendive, MT, 1994

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, MN
Baby Louie Display, 2004
Other Relevant Experience
Phil Tippett Studio, Berkeley, CA
Preliminary drawings and storyboards for dinosaur television production, Dinosaurs, 1985
Preliminary design for movie Evolution, 2000
Preliminary design of dinosaur character, ‘Kron,’ for Disney’s Dinosaurs, 1989


Disney’s Brother Bear, Orlando, FL
Preliminary design and storyboards for animated feature, Brother Bear, 2000-2001

Disney’s Dinosaurs, Burbank, CA
Preliminary design and storyboards for animated feature, Dinosaurs, 1994-1996
Published Illustrations
Asteroid Impact, by D. Henderson, published by Dial Books, 2000
Dinosaur Ghosts, by J.L. Gillette, published by Dial Books, 1997
How Dinosaurs Came to Be, by P. Lauber, published by Simon and Schuster, 1996
Dinosaur Tree, by D. Henderson, published by Bradbury Press, 1994
Living with Dinosaurs, by P. Lauber, published by Bradbury Press, 1991
Dinosaurs, A Global View, by S. and S. Czerkas, published by Dragon’s World, 1990
Dawn of the Dinosaurs, The Triassic in Petrified Forest, by R.A. Long and R. Houk, published by the Petrified Forest Museum Association, 1988
Maia, A Dinosaur Grows Up, by J.R. Horner and J. Gorman, published by Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, 1985, reprinted by Running Press, 1987
Ancient Mariners, Natural History Magazine, September 1992
Debut Sue, National Geographic Magazine, June 2000
Education
Independent Study, Printmaking, University of Montana, Bozeman, MT, 1979-1985
A.D. Nursing, Lexington Technical Institute, KY, 1976
B.A. Physical Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 1973
Gallery