Mark Klingler (A’90) is the Picasso of scientific illustration and wildlife art.

His drawings and watercolor paintings of extinct primates and dinosaurs as well as modern-day creatures have been published in some of the world’s most prestigious scientific publications, such as National Geographic, Discover, Nature, Science, and Scientific American magazines. His work has appeared on CNN.com, BBC.com and Reuters.com, and he’s hosted shows, lectures and workshops at the Smithsonian, the National Audubon Society and at museums in New York, Denver and Pittsburgh.


Klingler’s latest endeavor is "Fur, Feathers & Fossils," a solo exhibit on display through March 2006 at Science magazine and the American Association for the Advancement of Science headquarters in Washington, D.C. Klingler, scientific illustrator at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, says the exhibit gives visitors a look into the process of scientific reconstruction.

One series of drawings in the show features an unnamed species of oviraptorosaur, one of the “feathered dinosaurs.” “The exhibit panels depicting the steps involved in reconstruction offer unique, raised line art of the progressive stages in fleshing out the oviraptorosaur, from fossil bed to articulated skeleton to finished model,” Klingler says. The information panels that accompany the series of drawings are supplemented with Braille for the visually impaired.

Klingler received the 2003 John J. Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for Scientific Illustration from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. His winning artwork was a fossil reconstruction of Hadrocodium wui (shown), the earliest mammal ever discovered, which appeared on the cover of Science magazine in May 2001.


Related Link:
Klinger's Carnegie Museum of Natural History Web site