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

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Notes: 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.
Contents: 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

Author: Olson, Roberta J. M; Shelley, Marjorie 1945-; Mazzitelli, Alexandra; Audubon, John James 1785-1851 Birds of America; New-York Historical Society
Subject: Audubon, John James 1785-1851 Birds of America; Audubon, John James 1785-1851; New-York Historical Society

Topic: Birds; Birds in art; Ornithological illustration; Watercolor painting, American; Ornithologists; Wildlife artists