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Charles Robert Knight (October 21, 1874 – April 15, 1953) was an American wildlife and paleoartist best known for his detailed paintings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. His works have been reproduced in many books and are currently on display at several major museums in the United States .
Cope's 1890 sketch of Agathaumas as a ceratopsian based on Triceratops. Cope originally did not know to what group Agathaumas belonged, though he noted that some of the remains were similar to the British reptile Cetiosaurus [4] and very different from the corresponding elements of Hadrosaurus and Dryptosaurus (Laelaps). [4]
In 1942, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating a confrontation between a Tyrannosaurus and a Triceratops in the Field Museum of Natural History for the National Geographic Society, establishing them as enemies in the popular imagination. [114]
The paintings of Charles R. Knight were the first influential representations of these finds. Knight worked extensively with the American Museum of Natural History and its director, Henry Fairfield Osborn, who wanted to use dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals to promote his museum [12] and his ideas on evolution. [13]
Still of Triceratops from the 1925 film The Lost World Illustration of Triceratops created in 1904 by Charles R. Knight. Knight's illustrations also had a large and long-lasting influence on the depiction of prehistoric animals in popular culture.
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Painting by paleoartist Charles R. Knight of Agathaumas, the first named marginocephalian, from 1897. Marginocephalia is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that includes some of the most well-known Mesozoic animals, such as Triceratops and Pachycephalosaurus.
In 1927, Charles R. Knight painted a mural incorporating Tyrannosaurus facing a Triceratops in the Field Museum of Natural History, [14] establishing the two dinosaurs as enemies in popular thought; [15] paleontologist Phil Currie cites this mural as one of his inspirations to study dinosaurs. [11]