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| A magazine illustrator and dioramist, Dudley Blakely did background paintings and foreground work in the 1930s in New York City for the American Museum of Natural History including for the Akeley Hall of African Mammals.
In charge of exhibits at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Michigan where he lived in Bloomfield Hills, and for the Boston Museum of Science, he designed exhibits and did architectural drawings and models. For these institutions, he also did color plate for journals.
Blakely studied at the Art Students League in New York City and the Worcester Art Museum School in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Sources:
American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dioramas/artists/painters.php
Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art
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