Portraitist of Non-Existent Wildlife

Artist Scott Musgrove has created a portrait gallery of extinct animals, fish and birds that exist only in his imagination. He fancies himself as carrying on the tradition of 19th-century naturalist James Audubon (see the National Audubon Society), except the Seattle artist doesn’t actually kill wild birds and prop them up against picturesque tree stumps before he starts painting.

The pages of The Late Fauna of Early North America present a gallery of fantastical creatures including the Dwarf Basket Horse, the Humble Bighorn Blackfoot, the Hairy Brook Trout, the Tubby Sea Tiber, Swamp Island Ibex and the Lesser Plant Sampler, along with the floating ponies pictured above.



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