Artist: John James Audubon (1785 - 1851)
Nationality: American
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Media: Illustration
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Biography:
John James Audubon was born in Hatiti to a French sea captain and a chambermaid. He was raised in France where he received his initial training from J.L. David. In 1803, Audubon moved to the United States to avoid joining Napoleon’s army and began a career as a naturalist. During this time, he also worked as a portraitist, drawing teaching, and a taxidermist. Eventually, Audubon merged his interest in nature and art to form an illustrated record of all North American bird species. In 1826, he moved to England and came across a publisher in London, the Robert Havell and Son firm. The first edition of his four-volume collection of etchings appeared in 1827, and is now one of the most valuable books in the world.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Matthew Brady - John James Audubon c. 1847-48 daguerreotype, half Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Matthew Brady - John James Audubon c. 1847-48 daguerreotype, half Cincinnati Art Museum American
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John James Audubon Douglass' Squirrel, a study for pl. 48 ofViviparous Quadripeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman (New York: John James Audubon, 1845-1848) Watercolor, ink, graphite, and glaze on wove paper circa 1843
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Robert Havell Golden Eagle, pl. 181 from the portfolio John James Audubon. The Birds of America engraving and aquatint with watercolor 1833
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Robert Havell Brazilian Caracara Eagle, pl. 161 from the portfolio John James Audubon. The Birds of America engraving and aquatint with watercolor 1833
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Robert Havell Great Cinereous Owl, plate 351 from the portfolio John James Audubon. The Birds of America (London: the author, 1827-1839) engraving and aquatint with watercolor circa 1837
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Robert Havell Whip-poor-will, pl. 82 from the portfolio John James Audubon. The Birds of America (London, the author: 1828-1839) engraving and aquatint with watercolor circa 1827 - 1838
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John James Audubon Pileated Woodpecker color lithograph 1860
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John James Audubon Barn owl Aquatint and engraving with watercolor additions 1833
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Peter Van Valkenburgh John J. Audubon lithograph 1938
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John James Audubon Red tailed hawk Aquatint and engraving with watercolor additions 1829
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John James Audubon - Farmyard Fowls c. 1827 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John James Audubon - Osprey and Weakfish 1829 oil on canvas on har National Gallery of Art American
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John James Audubon, American, 1780-1851 Mrs. (Thomas) Sarah Best 1820 Graphite and black chalk on
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John James Audubon - Long-billed Curlew 1834 engraving with aquat Amon Carter Museum American
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John James Audubon - Long-Tailed Weasel c. 1845 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John James Audubon - Washington Sea Eagle c. 1836-1839 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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John James Audubon - Purple Grackle n.d. watercolor, pencil, Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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John James Audubon - Colonel Nathaniel Rochester 1824 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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John James Audubon - Carolina Parakeet (Carolina Parrot) 1827-38 hand-colored aquatin North Carolina Museum of Art American
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John James Audubon - Trumpeter Swan, from "The Birds of North America" 1838 hand watercolored en Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
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John James Audubon - Bald Eagle (White-headed Eagle) 1827-38 hand-colored aquatin North Carolina Museum of Art American
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Julius Bien Night Hawk chromolithograph 1860
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John Woodhouse Audubon - Long-Tailed Red Fox 1848-1854 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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John Woodhouse Audubon - A Young Bull c. 1849 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Julius Bien Ferruginous Thrush chromolithograph circa 1860
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John Woodhouse Audubon - Black-Footed Ferret 1840-1846 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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William Dyce - Mrs. John Clerk Maxwell and her Son James 1832-1833 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Henry Raeburn - The Allen Brothers (James and John Lee Allen) c. 1792 oil on canvas Kimbell Art Museum Scottish
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John Henry Robinson Charles James Fox 18th - 19th century
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John Carter Portrait of John Carter at Work, frontispiece in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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James Thompson John Sobieski engravibg 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Drawing Room At St. James, The Presentation. 18th - 19th century
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James Gwyn John, Duke of Argyll 18th century
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John Carter The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) book with 11 plates 1868
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Victor Gifford Audubon, American, 1809-1860 Hudson River View 1840s Oil on canvas 50.8 x 77.15
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James Thompson Sir John Franklin, Captain R.N. 18th - 19th century
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John Linnell, the Elder James Stephen, Esq. 18th - 19th century
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John Carter "The Head of a Fox," opposite page 39 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Carter Letter, opposite page 43 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Singer Sargent, American, 1856-1925 Alice Runnells James (Mrs. William James) 1921 Transparent and opaque
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John Roffe James Hogg, the Ettrick shephard 18th - 19th century
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John Carter Head after Rembrandt, opposite page 23 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Carter Syrian Goat, opposite page 18 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Carter Bird on Flower, opposite page 17 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Carter Painted Butterfly, opposite page 16 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Carter Wood-cut of our Lord, opposite page 31 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Carter "The Sick Horse," opposite page 39 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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Jean Mariette The Theory and Practice of Gardening by Alexandre Le Blond , 2nd English ed. tr. by John James (London: Bernard Lintot, 1728) Book with 37 engravings 1728
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John Singleton Copley - Mrs. James Russell (Katherine Graves) c. 1770 oil on canvas North Carolina Museum of Art American
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John Carter Virgin and Child by Carter, opposite apge 28 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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James Earl Mrs. John Rogers (Elizabeth Rodman Rogers) oil on canvas circa 1795
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John Neagle - Colonel Augustus James Pleasonton 1846 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Artist: John Coles Title: Crest: Name of Fairfield Date: about 1790 Medium: watercolor and ink
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Artist: John Coles Title: Crest: Name of Beckett Date: about 1790 Medium: watercolor and ink
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Multiple Artists The Annals of San Francisco by Frank SoulÈ, John H. Gihon, and James Nisbet (New York: D. Appleton, 1855) book with engravings and wood engravings 1855
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John Chapman James Pettit Andrews 18th - 19th century
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Le Marché et la fontaine des Innocents (actuel 1er arrondissement, Paris) (1822) by CHALON John James
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John Carter Sketch of Desk, Brush, and Pencil used by Carter, opposite page 26 in the book The Life of John Carter by Frederick James Mills (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868) 1868
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John Keyes Sherwin Captain James Cook 18th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (15)
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Buffalo Bill Historical Center: John James Audubon in the West: The Last Expedition - Mammals of North America
Curator of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art Sarah Boehme explains, John James Audubon is associated with artistic images of birds, with conservation issues, and with geographic locations of the Deep South. He doesn't immediately spring to mind ...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: Brian Prescott: Photographs from A Bird's Eye View
Prescott has been to five continents to see more than 1,500 species of birds, and he has photographed more than 1,000 of them. He has traveled to the four corners of North America, and into the Yukon and Northwest Territory of Canada. He has visit...
Art Gallery of Hamilton: Audubon's Wilderness Palette: The Birds of Canada
Audubons Wilderness Palette presents an impressive and engaging cross section of prints from the folio that focus for the first time on the artists Canadian excu...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: American Watercolors
The exhibition ranges from John James Audubon to Brice Marden and includes such masters of the watercolor as ...
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum: Visions of Nature : Pastel Renderings of Nature by Paula Pearl
Ms. Pearl’s sensitivity to nature has also drawn her to the use of pastel, which permits her to evoke the subtle interplay of light and color in scenes of the shifting waters of lakes and streams in delicate colors. In compositions at once bold an...
National Academy of Professional Plein air Painters: Desert Plein Air
Plein air is French meaning in the full air, includes landscape and slice of life scenes that are painted on location.  Deborah Chapin has been selected for his/her unique style of painitng.  Debo...
cherrydelosreyes: Antonio Adriano Puleo: To This World I Must Give In
The figures in Puleo’s paintings are either headless, as in Protect Your Neck (I Feel My Head Going Down Again) or “block heads.”  They almost always have a divine type of presence due to graphic beams of light penetrating apertures in the block h...
Cain Schulte Contemporary Art: A Measure Of Art : Diane Althoff
By depicting in her images the monetary value that the auction market places on art, Althoff's artistic discourse illustrates how our perception of the value of art is informed by material evaluations. In view of today's economic crisis, by once a...
Burke Museum: The Last Polar Bear: Facing the Truth of a Warming World
Visitors to the exhibit will follow the path of these alpha-predators, learning about the unique biology of the polar bear and the Arctic web of life to which they belong. Intimate images portray the bears’ annual cycle of life from mothers with c...
Sundance Photographic Workshop: Call for Artists: November Workshop in the Wild West
Camera gear in hand, they are greeted by local "Cowboy Poet" Lannie Scopes, who introduces the area while fellow wrangler JP Carson prepares a hearty, old west-style breakfast. After chow, Lannie will mount his horse and gallop through the streams...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Portrait/Self Portrait: Prints and Drawings from the Museum's Collections
Dating from the Renaissance to the mid-twentieth century, the show features works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Klimt, and Picasso, as well as American artists such as Mary Cassatt, John James Audubon...
Frick Collection: Unprecedented Gathering of Six Major Paintings by Velázquez
Velázquez in New York Museums is the only homage to the artist that is being offered by an American museum during 1999, the internationally celebrated year marking the anniversary of his birth. Curating the exhibition is Jonathan ...
Oakland Museum of Califoria: La Flor y la Calavera: Altars and Offerings for the Days of the Dead
This years exhibition examines the centrality of the concept of balance in pre-Columbian traditions as well as in our time. In the Breuner Gallery, the roots of the Días de los Muertos celebration are traced back to the early cultures of Mexico. T...
Peabody Essex Museum: Odyssey Into World Art Spans Time, Place, and Culture

Odyssey: A Journey Into World Art opens to the public October 16 and will run through the fall of 2001.

We want to push the boundaries, says Paula Richter, co-curator for the exhibition. There will be objects in Odyssey that people will be com...
National Museum of Chinese Revolution History: Dong Kingman: Watercolor Master
In addition to commemorating Kingman’s extraordinary career, Kingman’s second major exhibit in China coincides with and commemorates 30 years since relations between United States and China resumed. His prior exhibition in China in 1981 was the f...

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