PEGGY MACNAMARA

Artist / Author

Illustrator/Professor

Artist-in-Residence Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History (1990- present). 

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Adjunct Professor School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2001-present).

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Field Museum of Chicago

1)Large Collection of Paintings on Permanent Display 2)Conservation Efforts with Field Museum Scientists  

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Artist Author 5 Art/Science, 2 children books and a coloring book. Two 2020 complimentary books.

Over 390 Watercolor Original/Giclee Paintings

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Bird

Collection

Feathers are most familiar to us as tools of flight.  But many scientist now think that feathers evolved as insulation on dinosaurs who passed them on to their descendants, the birds. Perhaps this helps explain the variety of plumage, from a gull's efficient flight feathers , to the ostrich's fluff, to the peacocks's glorious tail plumes. 

Reptiles and Fish are beautifully painted in this extraordinary Collection.  Conservation efforts are at the forefront of Macnamara's effort.

 In 2018, the Conservation Team at the Field Museum succeeded in the designation of the Yaguas National Park in Peru, with the help of beautiful artwork of the endangered species painted by Peggy Macnamara 

"Paint what you love"

 Wildlife painting is particularly challenging and rewarding.  There is a timeless harmony that exists between land and the animals.  Painting or sketching from a live subject creates immediacy, a bond that is missing when working from a photograph.  

Macnamara has painted Zebras, Lions, Cheetahs, Fox, Elephants, Buffalo, Bears, Caribou, Gorilla, Rhinos, Sheep and the list goes on. 

Explore Nature through Wildlife in Peggy Macnamara's Wildlife in Watercolor!ur Text.