In 1826 John James Audubon set out to publish a collection of engravings of every known bird species in North America. “Most people thought this was a completely crazy idea,” said Don Luce, curator of ...

Compton Verney hosts an exhibition this summer of John James Audubon’s Birds of America (1827-38), on tour from National Museums Scotland. Close to 12 years in the making, the book’s 435 hand-coloured ...

John James Audubon painted the natural world with a deep love and a nearly obsessive lust. His renditions of North American bird species are some of the most celebrated depictions of the natural world ...

ALBANY -- The stunning avian colors in John James Audubon's life-size color lithographs have been clouded by smoke from the 1911 Capitol fire and a century of benign neglect, but the valuable bird ...

John James Audubon was a complicated guy who left behind a fraught legacy. Bird lovers are probably familiar with his great gift, the famous “The Birds of America,” a four-volume series of avian art ...

The huge, beautiful illustrations in Audubon’s Birds of America have strong links to Scotland, writes Duncan Macmillan A plate from Audubon's Birds of America PIC: Creative Commons. JJ Audubon is ...

The Smithsonian's Leslie Overstreet explains the importance of Audubon's Birds A copy of the world's most expensive printed book has sold at auction in London for £6.5m ($10.3m), but why is John James ...

A portrait of John James Audubon shows the artist and naturalist in a dark wolf-skin cloak, cradling a gun and sporting curly dark hair that was likely smoothed back with bear grease. The picture was ...

The New Bedford Art Museum/ArtWorks! is launching a new exhibit, Birds of the First Light and Longhouses: The Prints of John James Audubon, a glimpse into the decline and increase of bird populations ...

Some of the most celebrated wildlife images in U.S. history will be displayed this spring and summer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. “Drawn to Nature,” a collection of 75 John James Audubon bird ...

Early bird paintings and prints of John J. Audubon are on display on the first two floors of Widener Library. The exhibition, prepared by the College Library and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, ...

A copy of the world's most expensive printed book has sold at auction in London for £6.5m ($10.3m), but why is John James Audubon's Birds of America such a collectors' item? If you ever see a copy of ...