ALBANY -- The stunning avian colors in John James Audubon's life-size color lithographs have been clouded by smoke from the 1911 Capitol fire and a century of benign neglect, but the valuable bird ...
John James Audubon’s Birds of America prints showcase 435 life-size, hand colored species of birds with incredible detail. The library is more than just books, and WUWM’s Books and Beyond series with ...
John James Audubon painted the natural world with a deep love and a nearly obsessive lust. His renditions of North American bird species are some of the most celebrated depictions of the natural world ...
John James Audubon was a complicated guy who left behind a fraught legacy. Bird lovers are probably familiar with his great gift, the famous “The Birds of America,” a four-volume series of avian art ...
Writing from Edinburgh in December 1826, John James Audubon updated his wife, Lucy, on efforts to publish his life-size watercolors of North American birds. He was pleased with his progress. More than ...