Audubon's Aviary : : the Original Watercolors for The Birds of America
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Published to accompany a series of exhibitions of the New-York Historical Society's collection of Audubon's watercolors for The birds of America, beginning in 2013--Cf. pref.
A biographical sketch of an American icon / Roberta J.M. Olson -- Audubon's innovations and the traditions of ornithological illustration : some things old, some things borrowed, but most things new / Roberta J.M. Olson -- Drawing birds : Audubon's artistic practices / Marjorie Shelley -- Highlights from the watercolors for The birds of America / Roberta J.M. Olson -- The rest of the flock -- Listing of Audubon's bird watercolors in the New-York Historical Society / compiled by Alexandra Mazzitelli.
Contents: Birds of America.
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Ladies Library Collection.
PUBLISHED
New York : Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 448 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 34 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780847834839 (trade ed.)
0847834832 (trade ed.)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Shelley, Marjorie, 1945-
Mazzitelli, Alexandra.
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
New-York Historical Society.
SUBJECTS
Audubon, John James, -- 1785-1851. -- Exhibitions.
Audubon, John James, -- 1785-1851.
New-York Historical Society -- Exhibitions.
Historical Society New York.
Birds -- North America -- Exhibitions.
Birds in art -- Exhibitions.
Ornithological illustration -- Exhibitions.
Watercolor painting, American -- Exhibitions.
Ornithologists -- Biography.
Wildlife artists -- Biography.