Now is the time to start signing up for LSU Libraries' Audubon Day. The annual event is set for 10 a.m.-2 p.m. April 25 in the McIlhenny Room of LSU's Hill Memorial Library, 95 Field House Drive, and ...

In December — a prime season for those big coffee table books that shoppers like to give as gifts — maybe we should raise a glass to bird artist John James Audubon, who helped popularize the genre ...

John James Audubon yearned to paint birds in Hot Springs; the environs of Spa City were also the laboratory/home of one of the South's most distinguished ornithologists. Today it has been the site of ...

The Mennello Museum of American Art opens two intriguing exhibitions on Friday. Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America presents work by the legendary wildlife artist John James Audubon. After ...

I’ve been a longtime admirer of John James Audubon’s classic paintings of wildlife and birds of America. My husband and I just recently toured the Crystal Bridges American Art Museum in Bentonville, ...

John James Audubon’s Birds of America prints showcase 435 life-size, hand colored species of birds with incredible detail. The library is more than just books, and WUWM’s Books and Beyond series with ...

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 lifelike ...

John James Audubon visited Arkansas, but never got to Spa City’s environs. Now, birdwatchers can see what the ornithologist missed.

John James had been born Jean Rabin, his father’s bastard child, in 1785 on Jean Audubon’s sugar plantation on Saint Domingue (soon to be renamed Haiti). His mother was a 27- year-old French ...

He lied about his birthplace, his parentage and his artistic training. He was a shameless self-promoter... and the creator of one of the most respected works of American art and natural history. We ...