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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Audubon Naturalist Society is dropping the name Audubon. John James Audubon was a famous ornithologist, who was also an enslaver and a grave robber who seized the skulls of Native Americans. The ...

Why Mary Katrantzou admires Audubon's illustrations, an Issey Miyake bodice and the rainbow flag. By Nicole Acheampong The birding group has rebranded as NYC Bird Alliance because of John James ...

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 ...

It was in the Keys that John James Audubon found the fascination that Florida had promised. For the naturalist-artist, the allure was the water birds, thousands and thousands of them. Arriving at ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Lent for microfilming by the American Philosophical Society for the Archives of American Art, 1955. Selected from ASP's John Lawrence LeConte ...

The Tribute in Light is part of the Sept. 11 memorial celebration. Two beams represent the World Trade Center towers that are no longer part of the skyline. This year, birds entered the beams and were ...