Beautiful birds make beautiful stamps. Who, but the fabulous John James Audubon, could depict the colorful plumage and background for U.S. postage stamps through the years? Audubon (1785-1851) was a ...

John James Audubon had his paintings made into 435 prints, which could be sold to subscribers in a series of sets, then eventually bound into the project we know as “The Birds of America.” ...

Setting out to capture in paintings the avian life of a continent, John James Audubon (1785-1851) was nothing if not audacious. His “The Birds of America” aspired to be not only beautiful and ...

The Chicago Audubon Society will soon become the Chicago Bird Alliance. Leaders of the bird conservation organization decided to adopt a new name after grappling with the legacy of John James ...

Audubon not only slept in the raised basement room when James and Lucretia Pirrie hired him in 1821 to tutor their 16-year-old daughter, Eliza, for $60 a month in their St. Francisville plantation ...

Two art books revisit 19th-century illustrations by John James Audubon and Elizabeth Gould. Elizabeth Gould’s crimson rosellas (Platycercus elegans), Volume 5, Plate 22, from John Gould’s ...