Centering upon a set of paintings by the Austrian artist and evolutionist Gabriel von Max (1840-1915), The Apes & Us explores a century of representations of primates in relation to humans. The exhibition unpacks the cultural fascination with apes that began in the decades after Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859) as it spread into art, literature, and film, science and pseudoscience, the scholarly and the sensational. This companion catalog presents the exhibition text next to full color images of the artifacts on display.