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If you are coming to the Museum today, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The Rose Center for Earth and Space and the 81st Street entrance will be closed today, Friday, May 24.

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Building the bison diorama (1942)

Fred Scherer (L) and James Perry Wilson (R) paint the background of the American bison and pronghorn diorama while George Frederick Mason installs grass in the foreground. (1942)

Installing prairie grass (1942)

Foreground artist Charles Tornell sets grass in the American bison and pronghorn diorama. (1942)

Coyote: Yosemite Valley underdrawing (1946)

James Perry Wilson's preliminary charcoal underdrawing for the coyote diorama, set in Yosemite Valley of Yosemite National Park, California. The lighter values of the rock faces help create the illusion of distance. (1946)