“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 ...
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Rare collection of bird illustrations to go on display at Houston Museum of Natural ScienceA new exhibition featuring a rare collection of prints is coming to the Houston Museum of Natural Science next month. The Audubon's Birds of America exhibition will feature 46 prints from Nation ...
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 ...
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 ...
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