Into the woods. How John James Audubon hunted, pinned, and painted his masterpiece, "The Birds of America." Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), Study for Havell pl. no. 26, ca. 1825, John ...

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 creation cost ...

This Program Is Rebroadcast From November 6, 2012. Into the woods. How John James Audubon hunted, pinned, and painted his masterpiece, "The Birds of America." Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis ...

The Audubon Naturalist Society, the DC area’s leading and oldest environmental organization, is changing its name. The group will now go by Nature Forward after a membership-wide vote to drop the ...

Author David Sibley writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: As a young man John James Audubon was obsessed with birds, and he had a vision for a completely different kind of book. He would paint ...

The Comte de Buffon was a snob. Keeper of the Royal Botanical Gardens and the foremost naturalist of his era, Buffon deemed European birds superior to their American counterparts. John James Audubon ...

It’s a high-flying success story: A self-taught artist and immigrant defies the odds to create what is now one of the most prized illustrated books in the world, worth an estimated $8 million to $12 ...

The Seattle chapter of the National Audubon Society plans to remove “Audubon” from its name to address the racist and white supremacist actions and views of John James Audubon, the ornithologist the ...

John James Audubon, “Wild Turkey Cock, Hen and Young” (1826) (image courtesy Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, photo by Edward C. Robison III) A turkey isn’t the kind of animal that typically ...

Years ago, when working in Chicago, I would occasionally drift into an art gallery in the Wrigley Building that specialized in the works of John James Audubon. The big, beautiful paintings filled me ...

John James Audubon (1785–1851) was born in Les Cayes, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), to Jean Audubon, a French naval officer, and Jeanne Rabine, a Creole woman of mixed heritage. After his mother’s death ...

The Seattle chapter of the National Audubon Society—one of the largest US chapters of the environmental organisation devoted to bird conservation, named for the artist and ornithologist John James ...