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A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House

A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House

Heitman, Danny

Paperback

Series: Hill Collection: Holdings of the Lsu Libraries

ArtistsBirdwatchingGeneral United States History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 0807172936
ISBN13: 9780807172933
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Feb 5 2020
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Over the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon worked as a tutor at Oakley Plantation in Louisiana's rural West Feliciana Parish. This move initiated a profound change in direction for the struggling artist. Oakley's woods teemed with life, galvanizing Audubon to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of America's birds. That summer, Audubon began what would eventually become his four-volume opus, Birds of America.

In A Summer of Birds, Danny Heitman recounts the season that shaped Audubon's destiny, sorting facts from romance to give an intimate view of the world's most famous bird artist. A new preface marks the two--hundredth anniversary of that eventful interlude, reflecting on Audubon's enduring legacy among artists, aesthetes, and nature lovers in Louisiana and around the world.

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