There are only about 120 complete sets of John James Audubon’s Birds of America in the world today, and one of them is at the Milwaukee Public Library's Richard and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room.

In 1826 John James Audubon set out to publish a collection of engravings of every known bird species in North America. “Most people thought this was a completely crazy idea,” said Don Luce, curator of ...

John James Audubon painted the natural world with a deep love and a nearly obsessive lust. His renditions of North American bird species are some of the most celebrated depictions of the natural world ...

John James Audubon was a complicated guy who left behind a fraught legacy. Bird lovers are probably familiar with his great gift, the famous “The Birds of America,” a four-volume series of avian art ...

GRAND RAPIDS – John James Audubon's “Birds of America” are about to fly the coop. Grand Rapids Art Museum's summer exhibition, "Birds of America: Audubon Prints from Shelburne Museum" closes on Sunday ...

HOUSTON — A new exhibition featuring a rare collection of prints is coming to the Houston Museum of Natural Science next month. The Audubon's Birds of America exhibition will feature 46 prints from ...

In 1827, when John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” first went to print, a copy of the massive book was worth what would amount to $30,000 today. Subscribers bought special furniture just to display ...

Writing from Edinburgh in December 1826, John James Audubon updated his wife, Lucy, on efforts to publish his life-size watercolors of North American birds. He was pleased with his progress. More than ...

Some of the most celebrated wildlife images in U.S. history will be displayed this spring and summer at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. “Drawn to Nature,” a collection of 75 John James Audubon bird ...

There are 1,065 birds in John James Audubon's "The Birds of America," that 19th-century encyclopedic tour de force. Their images appear on 435 separate sheets. It took a team of 50 to etch and print ...

When the Audubon Society launched its redesigned website last month, it included gorgeous high-resolution images of the 435 plates from John J. Audubon’s The Birds of America. Available for free ...

A portrait of John James Audubon shows the artist and naturalist in a dark wolf-skin cloak, cradling a gun and sporting curly dark hair that was likely smoothed back with bear grease. The picture was ...