The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself.
In this unprecedented collection from The Library of America, Audubon the great nature writer takes his rightful place alongside Audubon the artist.
Retraces Audubon's travels through North America in the early 1800s, and the authors' journal
A study of Audobon's mammal paintings, based on his last expedition to the western United States in 1843. The text places his work in the context of his ornithological paintings...
Publisher Description
Pittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814 (1966 Readex Microprint reprint). Dallett, Francis James. “Citizen Audubon: A Documentary Discovery,” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. XXI, nos.
Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of...
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page.
John James Audubon devoted his entire life to his great obsession: to capture in pencil and paint the birds of America. His work was unique, for he managed to not...
"The first accurate transcription of John James Audubon's 1843 journals, which includes recently discovered and previously unpublished journal entries detailing his last expedition along the upper Missouri River"--Provided by publisher.