“Mark Marcuson: An Artist’s Journey” presents the evolution of artistic talent of Nebraska painter, illustrator and muralist Mark Marcuson. Beginning with Marcuson’s childhood sketches, visitors will journey through Marcuson’s life as an artist and his career as a scientific illustrator mastering watercolor, acrylic, oil, pencil, and pen and ink among others.

The exhibit includes Marcuson’s popular museum murals depicting prehistoric landscapes and amazing extinct animals, an explanation of the stringent process illustrating specimens for scientific journals, and more recent fine art works including still lifes, figurative paintings and fantasy art. Highlighting the exhibit is a series of illustrations developed for Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, a branch location of the University of Nebraska State Museum. The series includes animal reconstructions illustrated by Marcuson to show the public how fossils discovered at the site may have appeared as living animals. “Mark Marcuson: An Artist’s Journey” is located in the Cooper Gallery on the third floor of Morrill Hall and will be on display through February 2015.