Cliff Green has worked as a professional artist specializing in sculpting extinct animals for almost twenty years. Some of Cliff Green Studio's commissions include the following:
Cliff Green studio designed and sculpted the original bas reliefs of Tyrannosaurus rex , and Camerasaurus lentus , that now reside on the East and South sides of the North American Museum of Anceint Life in Lehi, Utah.His studio also sculpted fifteen species of full sized 18 inch to 6 foot Triassic and Jurassic pterosaurs for the same museum. They have been cast in the dozens, and are now hanging from the museum's ceilings.
Two of Cliff's bronzes are included in the paleontological art volume; " Dinosaur Imagery, The Lanzendorf Collection", Published by University Press, 2000. They are now on permanent display with the rest of John Lanzendorf's collection, at the Childrens Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In the Winter of 2001, he completed a large seven sculpture assignment from the Discovery Channel for their " When Dinosaurs Roamed America" documentary, that premiered in July, 2001. The seven animals sculpted include: Triceratops, Torosaurus, Einosaurus, Centrosaurus, Pachyrhinosaurus, Zuniceratops , and the gigantic pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus Northropi . All were rendered from 1/5th to 1/10th scale.
Cliff Green's horned dinosaur sculptures were also used for the 2003 "Dinosaur Planet", documentary, for the same network.
Cliff Green Studio completed a large grant from the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, Price, Utah, in Early 2002. The Studio sculpted and painted nine 1/10th scale dinosaurs. Eolambia caroljonesi , Utahraptor ostrommaysorum , Gastonia burgei , Animantarx ramaljonesi , Nedcolbertia , unnamed iguanodont, unnamed super nodosaur, unnamed brachiosaur, and Cedarpelta bilbeyhallorum . All were rendered to the specific instructions of the paleontologists who discovered and named them.
These sculptures are being used for educational purposes also. Copies of the nine dinosaurs have traveled extensively in a lecture circuit to public schools in Utah and Colorado, to teach children about Natural History.
In February, 2003, Cliff Green Studio completed a year long commission as the Art and Exhibit Director for The Dinosaur Walk Museum, in Pidgeon Forge, Tennesee. His duties included choosing and hiring the different vendors, quality control, and exhibit design . Cliff Green Studio also completed several full sized pterosaur commissions for the same museum franchise. Cliff Green sculpted eight species of full sized Triassic to Late Jurassic pterosaurs in increments of three, for a total of twenty four flying reptile models, all in various flight poses.Four sets of these models went out to different museums across North America.
Cliff Green also showed his artwork at several different Fine Art Galleries, and has won multible awards, including Best of Show, Professional in the Creative Arts catagory at the Utah State Fair, four years running. He was asked by the Utah Counsel for the Arts, to return as one of ten Working Artists featured at the Utah State Fair in 2006, and won Best of show for a fifth time.
In 2004 Cliff Green finished two small full scale feathered dinosaurs models for the Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden, Utah. That year Cliff Green Studio also completed a full sized 22 foot Pteranodon Ingens sculpture for the Dinosaur Walk Museum in Long Island, New York. Cliff Green also sculpted four full scale Velociraptor mongolensis's for The Eccle Dinosaur Park, Utah and The Natures Walk, Connecticut, respectively.
Cliff's studio is currently working on various private and museum sculpting commissions. As of September, 2006,Cliff Green completed a full scale Hagryphus giganteus sculpture for the Elizebeth DeShaw museum, in Northern Utah.
Cliff is currently sculpting a full sized bronze monument of Dilophosaurus wetherilli for the Saint George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, and will be starting a bronze Hagryphus giganteus at the Grand Staicase-Escalante National Monument, in Bigwater, Utah, soon.
Cliff Green Studio has recently branched out into modern wildlife sculpture, and in July, 2007 completed a zebra mare and foal bronze commission " Burchell's mother " for a private estate.
Cliff Green Studio is now accepting new modern and paleontological wildlife commissions.
Cliff Green Studio
628 North Aspen Circle
Price, Utah 84501
(435) 636-0887
Cell (435) 650-5172
dinonaut@emerytelcom.net
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