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The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America
New-York Historical Society
October 2012
On Sale: October 16, 2012
448 pages
ISBN: 0847834832
EAN: 9780847834839
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark
publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic,
but it has never been explored like this before. This
important new volume presents all the dazzling watercolors
that Audubon painted for these monumental engravings. We are
familiar with the prints engraved by Robert Havell Jr., but
Audubon’s Aviary illuminates the original masterpieces that
were created by Audubon himself and tells the story behind
their creation with fresh insights and engaging quotes from
his writings. These powerful paintings—all newly
photographed using state-of-the-art techniques—possess a
startling immediacy, vibrancy, and fluidity that link
natural history, art, and a respect for the
environment. These watercolors transmit Audubon’s devotion
to his craft with their inscriptions and layers of media
wrought with a miniaturist’s attention to detail and their
revolutionary compositions, which for the first time in
history depicted all the birds life-size. Audubon is
considered America’s first great watercolorist, introducing
innovative approaches developed over a lifetime of study.
Even judged alongside today’s technology, his dramatic
tableaux remain some of the most spectacular natural history
documents and visually arresting works of art ever produced.
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