Mr. Zallinger, who later taught drawing and painting at the University of Hartford and painted a mural of the history of Hartford for Aetna Life & Casualty Co., spent 7,000 hours on the reptile mural.

A memorial service will be held Tuesday in New Haven for Rudolph Franz Zallinger, the painter of the famed dinosaur mural at Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. Mr. Zallinger ...

Zallinger himself explained what happened next in his painting’s official interpretive pamphlet, The Age of Reptiles: The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger’s Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale.

The artist, Rudolph Zallinger, sketched them striding purposefully across the page, seemingly becoming more advanced with each step.

In 1970, the natural history illustrator Rudolph Zallinger painted a picture of human evolution called "The March of Progress" in which a parade of hominids walked along from left to right ...

The Age of Reptiles mural, completed in 1947 by Yale grad Rudolph F. Zallinger , is one of the most familiar features of the Yale Peabody Museum.

The mural, which was created by artist Rudolph F. Zallinger ’42 B.F.A. ’71 M.F.A. between 1942 and 1947, is shielded behind a specially designed protective scaffolding. The structure’s two tiers ...