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Collecting Guide: Oppenheimer Editions Audubon Prints
Since its inception in 1996, our publishing company Oppenheimer Editions has partnered with major institutions [...]
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Exploring Early Methods of Specimen Collection in Natural History Art
Have you ever wondered where the reference material for antique wildlife prints and paintings came [...]
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The Alchemy of Nature – Using Gold in Natural History Art
While found less frequently in natural history art than other genres, gold nonetheless makes an [...]
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John Gould’s Family of Hummingbirds Lithographs
John Gould’s monograph The Family of Hummingbirds is considered the crowning achievement of his illustrious [...]
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Casualties of Fashion: The Contentious History of Plume Plundering
Though the idea of ornamenting oneself with a bird carcass may be a bit deterring [...]
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The Birds of Paradise: One of Nature’s Most Elusive, Ostentatious, and Promiscuous Families
The Introduction of Birds-of-Paradise to the Western Imagination
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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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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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A Modernist Approach to Understanding a Selection of Prints from Audubon’s Birds of America
A Discussion of Spatial and Perspectival Distortion, Challenging the Confines of the Print Perimeter, and [...]
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The Controversy Surrounding Audubon’s ‘Bird of Washington’
A consideration of the complex and convoluted history of Audubon's unidentified rapacious species
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Original Duck & Geese Paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
A beautiful selection of original watercolor paintings by renowned artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes has recently [...]
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Spontaneous Surrealism in Mark Catesby’s Artwork
An investigation of the thematic confluences between Surrealist art and Catesby’s prints
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The Evolution of Audubon’s White-headed Eagle
The confluence of creative mechanisms behind Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon’s depictions of the [...]
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Audubon’s Osprey
Audubon’s Osprey or Fish Hawk frequently makes its way into the top tier of Audubon’s [...]
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A Comparative Analysis of the Bird Prints of Prideaux John Selby and His Contemporaries
An exploration of the creative confluences and stylistic continuities between the artwork of Selby and [...]
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Mar
Audubon’s Havell Edition of the Raven and American Crow
Sensorial engagement and the challenging of object-viewer relations in Audubon's prints
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Symbiosis of Art and Science in Audubon’s Pileated Woodpecker
The twofold nature of Audubon’s prints as both artistic and scientific is exemplified in his [...]
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Oct
Exploring Audubon’s Woodcock – The Havell Edition
An analysis of Audubon's technical and creative approach to rendering the American Woodcock
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Oct
The Abyssinian Bird Portraits of Louis Agassiz Fuertes
A consideration of the creative techniques and viewer-object relations in Fuertes's watercolors
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“A Transcript from Living Nature”
An overview of the structural blueprint underlying Alexander Wilson's American Ornithology
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May
The Interconnection between Rationality and Nonsense in Edward Lear’s Artwork
A consideration of the relationship between Lear's scientific illustrations and Nonsense-verse caricatures.
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