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AUDUBON'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES
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Biographies of extraordinary individuals are inevitably tales of
obsession, an excavation that seeks to unearth the foundation of, for
example, an artist's singular aesthetic vision or a naturalist's
passion for minute observation or an explorer's quest to make known
the unknown world. Rarely, of course, do the artifacts of a life make
such archeological digging an easy endeavor. It is far less demanding
to recount the procession of events that composed a life than to
uncover the very engine ...
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Crafting fine fiction out of what Audubon omitted from his journals.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Lloyd Shaw, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES In her beautifully written little novel, Creation, Canadian author Katherine Govier recreates the summer during which soon-to-be-famous naval officer and cartographer Henry Wolsey Bayfield, of British origin, met soon-to-be-famous naturalist and
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Audubon's Artful Nature
The Washington Post
; AN AWFUL MISTAKE the Smithsonian made more than a century ago still haunts the institution. A ghostly reminder of its failure to acquire the artworks and papers of John James Audubon is on display at the National Museum of American History. The great naturalist and artist is an American icon now,
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Audubon's Flights of Genius;`The Birds of America,' at the National Gallery
The Washington Post
; The most amazing thing about John James Audubon's watercolors for "The Birds of America," the big and striking pictures that go on view tomorrow at the National Gallery of Art, is their uncanny modernity. Bird artists, and skilled ones too - they get every feather right - are common now as weeds.
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Audubon produced influential book; After his business went bankrupt, painting birds went from hobby to a job
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; John James Audubon, who was born this week (April 26) in 1785, was a rare bird, and in the 18th century his chosen profession, painting birds, was even rarer. Yet in many ways Audubon was the quintessential early American. He came to America from Europe, having fled France to avoid conscription in
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Audubon's artwork on display
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; "The Mysterious John James Audubon'' is at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art through Sept. 29. MILLERSBURG - An outstanding exhibit of John James Audubon's artwork has found its way to a secluded gem of a venue near the Susquehanna River, just a half-hour north of Harrisburg. It is fitting
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