Field Museum, Eastern Fence Lizards

Terry Evans, artist

born 1944

Field Museum, Eastern Fence Lizards, 2001

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: Iris print

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 55.8 x 44.3 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 15/16 x 17 7/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 60.6 x 50.7 cm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 23 7/8 x 19 15/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger Art Acquisition Fund

Accession number: 2012.0062

Not on display

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Collection Cards: STEM

This photograph portrays a jar full of eastern fence lizards that have been preserved, tagged, and stored at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. The Field Museum is dedicated to collecting and preserving animals as a way to explore how the world came to be what it is today.

What are some other ways to study animals? You could go outside or to the zoo and study living animals. If you weren’t able to study living animals, what other ways could you learn about animals and nature?

What kinds of information do scientists and artists record about animals so that they can continue to study them when they cannot access them directly?

Brosseau Center for Learning: Principles of Organismal Biology Fall 2019

Between 1998 and 2002, photographer Terry Evans mined the collections of the Field Museum in Chicago for her series, "Prairie Specimens." This series includes photographic images of pressed plant specimens, drawers of birds, reptiles and amphibians preserved in jars, insects pinned in boxes. Evans's photographs invoke our response to the beauty inherent in natural forms, but further invites us to reflect on the nature of our intervention as collectors, scientists and curators.

Exhibition Label:
"Cabinets of Curiosity: Musing About Collections," Jun-2006, Joseph Keehn and Madeline Rislow
Between 1998 and 2002, photographer Terry Evans mined the collections of the Field Museum in Chicago for her series, "Prairie Specimens." This series includes photographic images of pressed plant specimens, drawers of birds, snakes preserved in jars, insects pinned in boxes, and this swan, swaddled for safe storage for over a century. Evans's photographs invoke our response to the beauty inherent in natural forms, but further invites us to reflect on the nature of our intervention as collectors, scientists and curators.