John james audubon

Plates drawn by J.J. Audubon and lithographed by J.T. Bowen of Philadelphia and Endicott of New York; plates also initialled: J.C.; W.E.H.; C.P.; R.T

3421 John James Audubon (1785-1851) was not the first person to attempt to paint and describe all the birds of America (Alexander Wilson has that distinction), but for half a century he was the young country’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal The Birds of America, a collection of 435 life-size prints, quickly eclipsed Wilson’s work and is still a standard against which 20th and 21st century bird artists, such as Roger Tory Peterson and David Sibley, are measured. It’s fair to describe…

Raven (Plate CI)Corvus corax

In the end of June, 1832, I observed one of these birds a few miles below the city of Camden, New Jersey, flying over a meadow in pursuit of insects, after which it alighted on the top of a small...

Download free image of Barn Owl from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, etched by William Home Lizars. Original from University of Pittsburg. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. about audubon, owl, barn owl, audubon owl, and tyto alba 277431

Artist Dan Winters turns the lanky wader into a 'creature of lore.'

National Gallery of Art

In 2014, an exhibition of watercolours by the renowned avian artist, John James Audubon, opened in New York. The reviews, from the New York Times to the Guardian, were unambiguously enthusiastic, celebrating the painter as a legendary genius who ‘exceeded the limits of his era’. Fast forward eight years, and a rather different vibe hangs

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