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audubon: legacy
The fame of his paintings has tended to distract us from the volumes of text Audubon compiled to accompany Robert Havell Jr.’s engraved plates. Much of its ornithological data has been superceded by subsequent studies, but the accounts of his … Continue reading
audubon: birds, birds and more birds
A nuber of the paintings carried detailed instructions for Robert Havell Jr.,the English engraver, to guide him and his colorists in the preparation of the copies, notations which were naturally suppressed in the making of the engraved plates. Occasionally the … Continue reading
audubon: illusions of spontaneity
Returning to the original paintings of John James Audubon and not the proliferation of cheap prints, brings us directly back to his highly personal method and approach- and to the most intimate aspects of his artistic labors. On several occasions … Continue reading
audubon:endless proliferation
John James Audubon did not know that no Occidental artist before him had painted bird life on such an heroic scale, or had recorded such animated, informed likenesses of birds in their different habitats. And he felt with growing conviction … Continue reading
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Audubon’s original bird paintings reveal an intimate record of the American woodsman’s remarkable achievement… Ever since his death in 1851, John James Audubon, the self-styled “American Woodsman”, has been given the image of a folk hero whose stature seems to … Continue reading