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Audubon, John James - Biography & Artworks | Artheon Museum

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Audubon, John James

1785–1851

Nationality: United States, France

Born: 1785, Les Cayes

Died: 1851, New York City

Gender: male

Movements

Naturalism

Occupations

bird illustrator

scientific collector

naturalist

photographer

draftsperson

botanical collector

scientific illustrator

ornithologist

zoologist

writer

printmaker

painter

botanist

→ Wikipedia → Wikidata → Getty ULAN

Biography

American Naturalist, painter, and draughtsman of French–Creole descent. Brought up in a French village near Nantes, moved to and worked in the the United States.

Wikidata (CC0); Getty ULAN (ODC-By)

Notable Works

Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon
The Birds of America

Artworks

9 artworks

Goshawk, Stanley Hawk (No. 29)

1830

Black Warrior (No. 18)

1830

Red Shouldered Hawk (No. 12)

1829

The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, vol. II

1851

The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States

1842

John James Audubon (The Gallery of Illustrious Americans)

1850

The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States

1840–44

The Gallery of Illustrious Americans, Containing the Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Twenty-four of the Most Eminent Citizens of the American Republic Since the Death of Washington

1850

Ivory-billed Woodpeckers

ca. 1830–31

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