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In the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon took a job as a tutor, relocating from urban New Orleans to Oakley Plantation in Louisiana's rural West Feliciana Parish. More than a simple change in scenery, this move would initiate a profound change of direction in Audubon's life--a development that would eventually result in his becoming one of the most recognized artists of all time. The woods near Oakley teemed with an abundance of life, galvanizing him to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of America's birds. In his spare time that summer, Audubon completed or began at least twenty-three of the paintings eventually published in 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.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Heitman, Danny
- ISBN: 9780807172933
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.40
- Number Of Pages: 152
- Publication Year: 2020