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Apple QuickTime Audio  |  1996-05-27  |  1.6 MB  |  1 channel  |  44,100 sample rate  |  1 minute, 12 seconds
Transcription: The art collection of the American Museum of Natural History contains over 1,500 original works by artists ranging from John James Audubon to Andy Warhol and includes 109 watercolors by the great 19th century wildlife painter Joseph Wolfe. The German-born artist's pictures are intensely lifelike and have lost none of their vigor and vibrant color since they were painted. The paintings were commissioned in the 1870s by Daniel Giro Elliott, an early scientific advisor to the museum, who produced a definitive series of publications on birds and mammals. Intended for scientific reference, Wolfe's ...