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Dear Wizards of art research,

One of our geologists recently sent me the following inquiry, and I'm
stumped.  Can anyone out there help?

Please answer directly to me, rather than to the list.

With much gratitude,

Susan Wyngaard, Head
Fine Arts Library
Ohio State University
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, Ohio 43210
tel: 614-292-6184
fax: 614-292-4573
email: [log in to unmask]


>I'm looking for a certain picture and was wondering if you could help me
>find it.
>
>The artist is Arthur Lakes, an early dinosaur collector.  The picture (a
>watercolor) shows two men (Lakes and Richard Hallett) digging dinosaurs in
>the dead of winter in Wyoming in 1880.  Titled the "Pleasures of Science",
>I have found it reproduced in two books: "Marsh's Dinosaurs - the
>collections from Como Bluff" by John Ostrom & John McIntosh and in a
>recent book on Lakes ("Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West - The Field
>Journals of Arthur Lakes" edited by Michael Kohl & John McIntosh).  In
>both of those, however, it was printed in black & white.
>
>I'm looking for a color image of that picture.  I know I've seen one
>somewhere - any ideas where I could find one?
>
>Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

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