|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
| Jay
Matternes |
|
| Art
Associate |
|
|
| Jay
Matternes has been creating photographic-quality
paintings for natural history
museums for more than 50 years.
Jay started his career as an artist
when he was awarded a full scholarship
from the Richard King Mellon Foundation
to study fine art at the Carnegie
Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Since then, Jay authored six large
murals for the Smithsonian Hall
of Mammals and Ice Age Hall, worked
with two generations of Leakeys
reconstructing fossil hominids,
and with numerous other scientists
in the field of vertebrate paleontology.
Jay is one of the most celebrated
natural history artists, and his
paintings can be seen all across
the United States, Japan, Australia
and Europe. Jay joins Syncreta
Associates because of their
high aspirations to excellence
in the interpretation and depiction
of natural science. |
|
|
| Education |
|
|
|
| Art
training at the School of Painting
and Design College of Fine Arts,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
PA., graduated with honors and
a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree,
1955 |
|
| Awards |
|
|
|
Society
of Illustrators exhibition, New
York "Fine Art of Medicine"
award ,1988
Art Directors Club of Washington,
DC "Award of Merit",
1986
American Institute of Graphic
Arts, New York "Gold
Medal" for Cover Design,
1985
American Institute of Graphic
Arts Cover Show NY "Certificate
of Excellence", 1982
Art Directors Club of Washington,
DC "Award of Merit"
1982
Society of Animal Artists exhibition,
New York "Medal of Merit",
1979
Art Directors Club of Washington
DC "Award of Merit",1968
Full 4-year scholarship from Richard
King Mellon Foundation, 1951 |
|
| Murals,
Paintings, Illustrations, and
Dioramas on permanent exhibition |
|
|
|
National
Science Museum, Tokyo Japan
"Hall of Anthropology
- Fossil Primates", 2004
Florida Museum of Natural History,
Gainesville, FL
"Hall of Florida Fossils:
Evolution of Life and Land, 2004
Frank H. McClung Museum, University
of Tennessee:
"Human Origins: Searching
for our Fossil Ancestors",
2004
Gunma Museum of Natural History,
Takasaki, Japan
"Hall of Human Evolution",
1996
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, NY
"Lila Acheson Wallace
Hall - Mammals and Their Extinct
Relatives", 1994
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, NY
"Hall of Human Biology
and Evolution, 1993 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Profile
