Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America by Olson, Roberta
Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America by Olson, Roberta

Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America

A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic,...
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Author: Roberta Olson
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Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America by Olson, Roberta

Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America

CHF 152.41
Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America by Olson, Roberta

Audubon's Aviary: The Original Watercolors for the Birds of America

CHF 152.41
Author: Roberta Olson
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Roberta Olson, The New-York Historical Society
Publisher: Skira Rizzoli
Published: 10/16/2012
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 8.23lbs
Size: 13.23h x 10.87w x 1.88d
ISBN: 9780847834839


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About the Author
Dr. Roberta J.M. Olson is the curator of drawings at the New-York Historical Society. She is also professor emeritus of art history at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and is the author of numerous publications, including Drawn by New York: Six Centuries of Watercolors and Drawings, The Florentine Tondo, and Italian Drawings 1780-1890. Marjorie Shelley is the Sherman Fairchild Conservator in Charge at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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