French-American naturalist John James Audubon (1785-1851) published detailed illustrations of America’s wildlife, and his major work, The Birds of America, is still considered a landmark ...

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 ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and ...

John James Audubon is best known for The Birds of America, a book of 435 images, portraits of every bird then known in the United States – painted and reproduced in the size of life. Its ...

The idea of birds in art probably brings to mind John James Audubon, the 19th-century ornithologist who wrote and illustrated the landmark series The Birds of America. L’Imagerie is launched "À vol ...

Souder is the author of A Plague of Frogs, On a Farther Shore and the 2004 Pulitzer-nominated book Under a Wild Sky about John James Audubon. Get the latest on what's happening At the Smithsonian ...

John James Audubon is known as many things: a tenacious birder, a compelling painter, an enslaver who might himself have been a man of color.

Before photography, the natural world was captured in paintings and sketches by artists like John Audubon, whose remarkable illustrations of birds have endured for 200 years. One of his contemporaries ...

John James Audubon’s watercolour of two passenger pigeons, one of his best, captures a moment so intimate that, in truth, we should not be there to witness it: two birds sharing food, their ...

John James Audubon was an American artist and naturalist best known for his detailed paintings of North American birds. View John James Audubon’s 6,555 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, ...

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 ...