William Louis Sonntag painting on view at Cincinnati Museum Center
Sonntag’s 1850 painting Ohio River Near Maysville, Kentucky, part of CMC’s History Objects and Fine Art Collection, reflects the local landscape at a time when mastodons roamed the region. The discovery of mastodon bones at nearby Big Bone Lick in 1739 caught the attention of scientists including Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson who, as president, […]