orate the cover of the Saturday Evening Post. " Moessel 

 was a resident of Chicago and, like Knight, enjoyed 

 considerable commercial success in the world of art — 

 at least for some years. He died destitute, at the age 

 of 88. 



Even if Field Museum had the space and the plans 

 to add to its habitat groups and its muralized pre- 

 sentations of natural history, it is most likely that the 

 backgrounds and murals would be achieved, no longer 

 with paint and brush, but by means of photography and 

 printing — processes which have experienced great 

 technological advances in recent times. With this in 

 mind, the remarkable achievements of Charles Abel 

 Corwin and those artists who followed him should be 

 viewed in a new historical perspective. FM 



Right: ]ulins Moessel (1939) shown with one of his murals on view in 

 the Hall of Useful Plants. Another of the murals is shown below. s2om. B79598 



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