Warning: May contain scenes of a non-biblical nature.
Long before there was a Los Angeles there was a large swamp floating on a wide lake of bubbling tar. I have created these scenes based on the prehistoric bones of the animals trapped there that continue to bubble up today along Wilshire Boulevard. - Robert Hawkins
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Robert Hawkins, Adventures in the La Brea Tar Pits
Installation view
Robert Hawkins
Last Mastadon Sinking in La Brea Tar Pits
Oil on canvas
50cm x 40cm
2020
Robert Hawkins
Direwolf Pack with Irish Elk
Oil on canvas
40cm x 50cm
2021
Robert Hawkins
Smilodon with Elasmotherium Calf and Mother
Oil on canvas
40cm x 50cm
2021
Robert Hawkins
Giant Sloth with Three Cro-magnons
50cm x 40cm
2021
Robert Hawkins, Adventures in the La Brea Tar Pits
Installation view
Robert Hawkins
Mastadon Family with Smilodon and Two Cro-magnons
Oil on canvas
60cm x 75cm
2021
Robert Hawkins
Sinking Mastadon with Calf, Smilodon and Two Cro-magnons
Oil on canvas
65cm x 90cm
2021
Robert Hawkins
Cro-magnon Hunters with Woolly Mammoth
Oil on canvas
50cm x 40cm
2021
Robert Hawkins, Adventures in the La Brea Tar Pits
Installation view
Robert Hawkins
Hunters with dead Mastadon
Oil on canvas
40cm x 50cm
2020
Robert Hawkins
Prehistoric Bison race
Oil on canvas
40cm x 50cm
2021
Robert Hawkins
The First Pet
Oil on canvas
50cm x 40cm
2021
Robert Hawkins
The Last Dodo
Oil on canvas
50cm x 40cm
2021