For better and worse, the name Audubon has become almost synonymous with birds. The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to 1838 ...

In “The Birds That Audubon Missed,” Kenn Kaufman delves into the fierce, ... By age 11, Kaufman knew he wanted to grow up to write books about birds — and his interest never wavered.

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and ...

(“The Birds That Audubon Missed,” a new book by Kenn Kaufman, underlines that reality.) Keeping up with America’s vast array of ornithological wonders has always been a group effort, ...

John James Audubon had his paintings made into 435 prints, which could be sold to subscribers in a series of sets, then eventually bound into the project we know as “The Birds of America.” ...

AUDUBON’S AMERICA—Edited by Donald Culross Peattie—Houghton Mifflin ($6). John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted.

For better and worse, the name Audubon has become almost synonymous with birds. The reason, of course, is John James Audubon, whose “Birds of America” project, published from 1827 to ...

Birds of America is a series that was published from 1827 to 1838 in which John James Audubon attempted to paint every bird species in North America. The full four volumes contain 435 hand-colored ...

Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s ...

Surprising indeed were Audubon’s paintings; where the works of his predecessors were stiff, stylized depictions, Audubon’s perfect portrayals of birds were so lifelike as to fly off the page.

Once a month, Kenda Clark-Gorey dons white gloves to carefully turn a single page of a book. It's not just any book. It's the very rare Birds of America by John James Audubon.There were only 120 ...