Photo Archives - Charles Knight Paintings Gallery

Below are a selection of Charles R. Knight paintings from the Photo Archives. All images shown in the gallery are © The Field Museum. All photographs are by Ron Testa or John Weinstein. For information about purchasing high-resolution files and permission to publish please submit the Contact Photo Archives form.

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Protoceratops

Protoceratops, Mesozoic era. Primitive ceratopsian dinosaur with eggs, found in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, 1922. ID# CK10T

Ground Sloths and Glyptodonts

Ground Sloths and Glyptodonts. Megatherium and Glyptodon. Middle Pleistocene period, Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural. ID# CK20T

Mammal-like reptiles

Mammal-like reptiles. Carnivorous Cynognathus prepare to attack the virtually defenseless Kannemeyeria. Triassic period, Mesozoic era. ID# CK22T

Proterozoic era

Earliest records of earth life. Proterozoic era deposited sediments one and one half billion years ago. Fossils are believed to be lime secretions of minute single celled plants, similar to some of the algae that live in hot springs today. Precambrian time. ID# CK23AT

Basilosaurus (Zeuglodon)

Whales of the Eocene Seas. Basilosaurus (Zeuglodon). ID# CK26T

Cave Bear

Cave Bear. Cenozoic era. ID# CK28T

American Mastodon

American Mastodons. Cenozoic era. ID# CK29T

Stegosaurus

Jurassic dinosaur Stegosaurus. ID# CK31T

Giant Moas

Dinornis, extinct bird. Giant Moas. Cenozoic Era. ID# CK32T

Orohippus and Uintatherium

Small four toed horses of the genus Orohippus and the much larger, but harmless Uintatherium of the Eocene. ID # CK46T

Ordovician Sea Life

Ordovician Sea Life, two billion years ago, volcanic activity widespread, shows beached seaweeds, trilobites and cephalopods from the ocean. Cenozoic. ID# CK23BT

Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus)

Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus). Late Jurassic period, Mesozoic era. ID# CK5T

Triceratops and T. rex

Triceratops and T. rex Tyrannosaurus rex Mesozoic. ID# CK9T

Woolly mammoths

Woolly Mammoths Mammuthus primigenius and Woolly Rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis Cenozoic. Europe, Late Pleistocene time, 100,000 years ago. ID# CK30T

Volcanic activity

Nearly two billion years ago, volcanic activity was widespread. ID# CK23T

Rancho La Brea Tar Pools

Rancho La Brea Tar Pools, Cenozoic era. A Pleistocene panorama set at a pitch pool in California. Shown: large bird Teratornis, saber-tooth cat Smilodon, and an extinct species of horse. ID# CK8T

Late Cretaceous Seas

Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas, Mesozoic era. Marine reptile Tylosaurus; giant turtle Protostega, flying reptile Pteranodon. ID# CK24_1T

Irish Deer

Irish Deer, Megaloceros, Cenozoic era. ID# CK1T

Archaeopteryx

Archaeopteryx, Compsognathus and Rhamphorhynchus. Germany, Mesozoic, Lower Jurassic era. ID# CK39T

Devonian forest

Early land plants: Devonian forest plants had covered the land by the middle of the Paleozoic era, 320 million years ago. ID# CK49T

Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs

Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs, Mesozoic era. Helmet-crested Corythosaurus, a herd of long-crested Parasaurolophus, and heavily armored Palaeoscincus. ID# CK13AT

Permian Reptiles and Amphibians

Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus and Casea. Paleozoic era. Pelycosaurs of the Permian period of Texas. ID# CK45T

Pliocene panorama

An early Pliocene panorama showing the swamp dwelling rhinoceros Teleoceras, the mastodont Gomphotherium, and the pig like oreodont Ustatochoetus. Cenozoic. ID# CK41T

Giant Kangaroos and wombats

Giant Kangaroos and wombats. Palorchestes and Diprotodon. In the Cenozoic era, marsupials predominated in Australia. Late Pleistocene time, 100,000 years ago. ID# CK27T

Oligocene Titanotheres

Oligocene Titanotheres. Hyaenodon, Brontotherium and the tortoise (turtle) Stylemys. Cenozoic era. Charles R. Knight painting or mural, installed 1931. ID# CK12T

Miocene Plains Mammals

Miocene Plains Mammals, Cenozoic era. Camel Oxydactylus, two-horned rhinoceros Menoceras, 3 (three) toed horse Parahippus, giant pig Dinohyus, mammal with claws, Moropus. Charles R. Knight painting. ID# CK19TA

Ground Sloth, Megatherium

Great Ground Sloth, Megatherium. Nearly elephant size, and two types of armadillo like glyptodons, spiked tailed Doedicurus and Glyptodon. Charles R. Knight painting. ID# CK21T

Tylosaurus

Lizard Tylosaurus; turtle Protostega, flying reptile Pteranodon. Late or Upper Cretaceous Seas Mesozoic; Marine reptiles. Charles R. Knight painting. ID# CK24T

Plesiosaurus and Stenopterygius

Reptiles That Invaded The Seas; Plesiosaurus and Stenopterygius, fish shaped ichthyosaur. Charles Knight painting. ID# CK34T

Paleozoic Era Chicago

Corals once flourished where Chicago now stands. Large reefs existed here in the Mid-Silurian time, 365 million years ago. Paleozoic era. Charles Knight painting. ID# CK50T