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Audubon's aviary : the original watercolors for The birds of America
- Title
- Audubon's aviary : the original watercolors for The birds of America / Roberta J.M. Olson ; with an essay by Marjorie Shelley and contributions by Alexandra Mazzitelli.
- Author
- New-York Historical Society.
- Publication
- [New York] : New-York Historical Society : Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 448 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 34 cm.
- Subjects
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
- Ornithologists > United States > Biography
- New-York Historical Society Exhibitions
- Ornithological illustration > Exhibitions
- Wildlife artists > United States > Biography
- Birds > North America > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
- Watercolor painting, American > Exhibitions
- Birds in art > Exhibitions
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 > Birds of America > Exhibitions
- Note
- 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-441) and index.
- Contents
- A biograhical 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.
- Call Number
- JQG 13-616
- ISBN
- 9780847834839
- 0847834832
- LCCN
- 2012933744
- OCLC
- 783165190
- Author
- New-York Historical Society.
- Title
- Audubon's aviary : the original watercolors for The birds of America / Roberta J.M. Olson ; with an essay by Marjorie Shelley and contributions by Alexandra Mazzitelli.
- Imprint
- [New York] : New-York Historical Society : Skira Rizzoli, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-441) and index.
- Added Author
- Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America.Olson, Roberta J. M.Shelley, Marjorie, 1945-Mazzitelli, Alexandra.
- Research Call Number
- JQG 13-616