ALBANY -- The stunning avian colors in John James Audubon's life-size color lithographs have been clouded by smoke from the 1911 Capitol fire and a century of benign neglect, but the valuable bird ...
“American Animals” may not have been the blockbuster film of the summer, but it told the fascinating and true story of 20-year-old Warren Lipka, who planned a daring theft in Lexington, Kentucky, in ...
For decades, scholars have wondered what happened to naturalist John James Audubon's first commercial illustration, of a small bird called a heath hen. In 1824, the engraving was destined to decorate ...
John James Audubon's famed renderings of avian subjects make their West Michigan debut Friday when the Grand Rapids Art Museum unveils "Birds of America: Audubon Prints from Shelburne Museum." The ...
NEW BEDFORD - The New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! announces the opening of a new exhibit, Birds of the First Light and Longhouses: The Prints of John James Audubon. The exhibition, on display through ...
The Manlius Library recently received a noteworthy donation - a real feather in its cap. Manlius residents Harold Jones, professor emeritus of Spanish at Syracuse University and his wife, Barbara, ...
A wood thrush is a small bird; and when holding a 10.75” x 7” print, it’s easy to imagine that the bird itself is no larger than the cheeky figures fluttering across the page. The paper is crisp, the ...
GRAND RAPIDS – John James Audubon's “Birds of America” are about to fly the coop. Grand Rapids Art Museum's summer exhibition, "Birds of America: Audubon Prints from Shelburne Museum" closes on Sunday ...
It is one of those quirks of history that when John J. Audubon wanted a printer for his bird prints he could not find one in the United States. His bird research had been done in the U.S. but printers ...