these paintings promoted a romantic vision of the wilderness of the New World, to be viewed by people who would never see these birds in real life. Perhaps that is one reason Audubon found more ...

John James Audubon was an American artist and naturalist best known for his detailed paintings of North American birds. Audubon’s color-plate book The Birds of America (1827–1839), is widely acclaimed ...

21 in Daytona Beach. The "Audubon's Birds of Florida" exhibit at the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art of the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach will be on display through March 2.

The Bay County Public Library is taking flight with a bird-themed photo and painting exhibit by Bay County Audubon Society ...

The exhibition “For the Birds,” a seamless collaboration between Featherstone Center for the Arts and Mass Audubon’s Felix ...

The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838, catalogued more than 400 birds in life-size prints. The works captured the avian ...

“The reason the prints are so large is that Audubon wanted to present all the birds at life size,” explains Scott Krafft, curator of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections. “This ...

The number one bird is Anna’s hummingbird. But owls, woodpeckers, egrets/herons, kingfishers and quail also garner quite a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – John James Audubon — who painted a total of 1,065 birds in his life — is considered one of the landmark figures of North American bird study. However, author Kenn Kaufman ...