Collecting Guide: Oppenheimer Editions Audubon Prints

Since its inception in 1999, our publishing company Oppenheimer Editions has partnered with major institutions to make their holdings available as modern facsimile prints. Several of our most notable collaborations to produce Audubon’s artwork are with the Field Museum, The New-York Historical Society, and The American Museum of Natural History. In partnering with these institutions, we make a selection of their holdings available to the public as limited-edition, museum-authorized fine art prints. This guide outlines the different Audubon folios produced by Oppenheimer Editions.

Table of contents

• Birds of America

  • 50 Best Havells – The Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition

  • Bien Edition – Oppenheimer Editions
  • 1st Edition Octavos – Oppenheimer Editions
  • Audubon’s Watercolors – The New-York Historical Society Edition
  • Audubon’s Watercolors Octavos – The New-York Historical Society Edition

• The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America

  • Quadruped Imperial Bowen Edition – Oppenheimer Field Museum Edition

  • Audubon’s Watercolors – The American Museum of Natural History Edition

  • The Quadrupeds Octavo Edition – Oppenheimer Edition

1st Edition Octavos – Oppenheimer Editions

Produced circa 2008, the Oppenheimer Editions publication of Audubon’s 1st edition Octavos makes all 500 images available as modern fine art prints. Faithfully capturing the exact size, color, and detail of the original lithographs, the Oppenheimer Editions octavos are made from the superb original octavos in the Joel Oppenheimer Gallery collection. Published in a limited edition of 500, the Oppenheimer Editions Octavos are available from $50 – $300.

• Audubon Octavo Pl. 374 Snowy Heron | By Oppenheimer Editions $300.00
• Audubon Octavo Pl. 273 Golden-winged Woodpecker | By Oppenheimer Editions $200.00

Audubon’s Watercolors – The New-York Historical Society Edition

Our collaboration with the New-York Historical Society resulted in the first ever actual-size fine art print edition of their renowned collection of Audubon’s original watercolors. Published in 2006 by Oppenheimer Editions, Audubon’s Watercolors: The Complete Avian Collection, New-York Historical Society Edition features faithful facsimiles of all 474 of Audubon’s preparatory mixed-media paintings for his monumental folio, the Birds of America. Printed at actual size and meticulously proofed to ensure complete fidelity to the originals, Audubon’s Watercolors include 39 additional images that were never included in the final printing of Audubon’s Birds of America folio. As one-of-a-kind paintings housed in the NYHS collection, the original Watercolors do not circulate on the market except in facsimile form. Produced in a limited edition of 200, the prints can be purchased individually from $400 – $18,000 or as the 50 Best Complete Set for $60,000.

Investigating Audubon’s 50 Best Watercolors

The Oppenheimer Editions Fine Art Prints of Audubon's Watercolors for The Birds of America

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Jun

Audubon’s Miniature Folio – The Octavo Edition of Birds of America

A survey of the technical translation of Audubon’s work from the monumental to the miniature.

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Jun