G. Arthur Cooper and Carl Owen Dunbar

Summary

G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) Cooper (left), 1902-2000, and Carl Owen Dunbar shake hands as they stand beside a painting of Cooper by Robert Ades. The painting was presented at a dinner on October 28, 1965, honoring Cooper, Chairman of the Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History. The portrait now hangs in the Cooper Library of the Natural History Building.

Subject

• Ades, Robert Weston
• Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) 1902-
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
• National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Dept. of Paleobiology

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Photograph included in the transcript of G. Arthur Cooper Interviews by Pamela M. Henson, January 6,1984, in Smithsonian Institution Archives.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9524 Box 1 G. Arthur Cooper Oral History Interviews

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1965

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Paleobiologists
• Art
• Paleoontology
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Portraits
• Employees
• Museums
• Art objects
• Dunbar, Carl Owen
• Museum curators
• Paleobiology
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Event
• Photographic print

ID Number

59075-A

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 8w x 10h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

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