Painting of Charles Schuchert by Deane Keller

ID: SIA2010-0977

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Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: June 17, 1938

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 05-255, Box 1, Folder: 1

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Summary

Print of a painting of Charles Schuchert seated, holding a fossil. Schuchert has signed it, "Yours Truly Charles Schuchert June 17, 1938."

Subject

  • Schuchert, Charles 1858-1942
  • Keller, Deane 1901-1992
  • United States National Museum Division of Invertebrate Paleontology and Paleobotany
  • Peabody Museum of Natural History

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

  • Charles Schuchert was appointed Assistant Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the United States National Museum in 1894 and remained their for ten years. During this time, he participated in Robert Peary's 1897 expedition to Greenland and represented the United States government at the International Geological Congress in Vienna in 1903. The year that he signed this print, 1893, he was hired by the United States Geological Survey (USGS), and his work as a preparator at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History was being exhibited at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
  • The painting was presented to Schuchert by his former students at Yale University on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. The portrait was painted by Deane Keller, of the Yale School of Fine Arts. He is holding a fossil brachiopod in one hand and a small hand lens in the other. The paleographic map on the wall shows the distribution of lands and seas at an early period in the earth's history. The painting forms part of the Yale Peabody Museum Collections.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 05-255, Box 1, Folder: 1

Contact information

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

Date

June 17, 1938

Restrictions & Rights

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Topic

  • Paleontologists
  • Museums
  • Museum curators

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Portraits
  • Painting

ID Number

SIA2010-0977

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 6w x 8h; Type of Image: Portrait; Medium: Photographic Print

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