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Analyzing Visual Art
“Picturing John James Audubon”NEH Summer Institute
Indiana University
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
3. ICONOGRAPHY
4. BIOGRAPHY
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
Analyzing Visual Art
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John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in.,
The New-York Historical Society
1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Robert Havell after Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833-38Hand-colored engraving from The Birds of America, plate 181
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John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in.,
The New-York Historical Society
1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Robert Havell after Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Hand-colored engraving, 37 ¼ x 26 ½ in., plate 181 from The Birds of America
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Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Copper Engraving Plate of Common Loon, 1830
Copper, 41 ½ x 28 ½ n., American Museum of Natural History, New York
1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Common Loon, 1830
Uncolored engraving on paper, 41 ½ x 28 ½ in., American Museum of Natural History, New York
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
John James Audubon, Red-winged Blackbird, 1805Pastel, graphite, and ink on paper, 38 x 22 cm., Houghton Library, Harvard University
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
John James Audubon, Dusky Petrel, 1826Pencil on paper, 7 ¾ x 12 1/8 in., Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
John James Audubon, English Pheasants Surprised by a Dog, 1827Oil on canvas, 57 x 93 in., Racquet & Tennis Club, New York
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Reconstruction of Audubon’s wire-mounted bird modeling technique
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Audubon’s print shipping boxAmerican Museum of Natural History, New York
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Audubon’s portable lapdeskMahogany, New-York Historical Society
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Audubon memorabilia (hat, parfleched, gun, pistol, war club, pipe/tomahawk, axe)American Museum of Natural History, New York
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1. THE OBJECT VIEWED
Lucy Audubon, Beaded Purse, before 1826New-York Historical Society
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2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
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John James Audubon, Fish Hawk or Osprey, 1806Pastel, watercolor, graphite, and ink on paper, 57 x 63 cm.,
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Mark Catesby, Fishing Hawk, hand-colored etching, 10 x 14 in., from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the
Bahama Islands, 2 vols. (London, 1731-47)
2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
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Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Fish Hawk or Osprey, 1832Hand-colored engraving, 38 ¼ x 26 ½ in., from The Birds of America, pl. 81
2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
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2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Great Blue Heron, 1835Hand-colored engraving, 38 ¼ x 25 ½ in., from The Birds of America, plate 281
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2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833New-York Historical Society
Jacques-Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800Oil on canvas, 102 x 87 in., Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison
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2. STYLE AND TECHNIQUE
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833 Watercolor on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., New-York Historical Society
J.-L. David, Napoleon Crossing the Alps, 1800Oil on canvas, 102 x 87 in., Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison
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3. ICONOGRAPHY
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
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3. ICONOGRAPHY
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833, and detail of self-portraitWatercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
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John James Audubon, Nicholas Augustus Berthoud, 1819Pastel on paper, 10 x 8 in., Speed Art Museum, Louisville
3. ICONOGRAPHY
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John James and Victor Gifford Audubon, Wolverine or Glutton, 1841Mixed media, 36 x 25 in., American Museum of Natural History, New York
3. ICONOGRAPHY
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John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
4. BIOGRAPHY
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4. BIOGRAPHY
John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833, and detailWatercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
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4. BIOGRAPHY
John Syme, John James Audubon, 1826Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 in., White House Collection, Washington, D.C.
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4. BIOGRAPHY
G. P. A. Healy, John James Audubon, 1838Oil on canvas, 35 x 27 in., Museum of Science, Boston
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Victor Gifford and John Woodhouse Audubon, John James Audubon, 1841Oil on canvas, 44 x 60 in., American Museum of Natural History, New York
4. BIOGRAPHY
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4. BIOGRAPHY
Life mask of John James Audubon, c. 1830?Plaster, New-York Historical Society
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Anonymous Japanese artist, John James Audubon Discovers his Work Eaten by Rats, 1873Woodcut, Library of Congress
4. BIOGRAPHY
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After Frederick Cruikshank, Lucy Bakewell Audubon, 1831Albumen print carte-de-visite, 10.3 x 6.4 cm., New Brunswick Museum
4. BIOGRAPHY
Bogardus Galleries (NY), Lucy Bakewell Audubon, c.1860Albumen print carte-de-visite, 10.1 x 6.1 cm., New Brunswick Museum
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John James Audubon, Golden Eagle, 1833Watercolor, pastel, graphite, and selective glazing on paper, 38 x 25 ½ in., The New-York Historical Society
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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John James Audubon, Self-Portrait, 1826Graphite on paper,
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
John Gadsby Chapman, Col. David Crockett, 1835Oil on canvas, Alamo Museum, San Antonio, TX
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John James Audubon, Self-Portrait, 1826Graphite on paper,
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
George Caleb Bingham,Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52
Oil on canvas, 36 ½ x 50 ¼ in., Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis
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John James Audubon, Self-Portrait, 1826Graphite on paper,
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
George Catlin, “The Author Painting a Chief at the Base of the Rocky Mountains,” frontispiece to
Catlin, Letters and Notes, 1841
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John James Audubon, White-headed Eagle, 1828Hand-colored engraving, 37 x 25 ¼ in., from The Birds of America, plate 31
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Charles Willson Peale, The Artist in His Museum, 1822Oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
Audubon, White-headed Eagle, 1828Hand-colored engraving, 37 x 25 ¼ in., from The Birds of America, plate 31
John James Audubon, Wild Turkey, 1825
Watercolor and graphite on paper, 38 ¾ x 26 in., New-York Historical Society
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John James Audubon, Black Vulture, 1829Pastel, watercolor, graphite, collage on paper, 23 3/8 x 36 1/8 in., New-York Historical Society
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Théodore Géricault, Severed Heads, 1818Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm., Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
John James Audubon, Black Vulture, 1829Pastel, watercolor, graphite, collage on paper, 23 3/8 x 36 1/8 in., New-York
Historical Society
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Robert Havell after John James Audubon, Passenger Pigeon, 1832Hand-colored engraving, 26 x 20 ½ in., from The Birds of America, plate 62
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Havell after Audubon, Passenger Pigeon, 1832The Birds of America, plate 62
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
“Martha,” believed to be the last Passenger Pigeon, in the Cincinnati Zoo, 1914
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5. CULTURAL HISTORY
Bird-hat fashions, c. 1900
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George Bird Grinnell, 1849-1938
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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National Audubon Society, incorporated 1905
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Andrew Jackson Grayson, Northern Jacana, 1861Watercolor, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bateleur (Helotarses ecaudatus), 1927Watercolor, Paul Kasmin Gallery
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Walton Ford, Madagascar, 2002Watercolor, gouache, ink, and pencil on paper, Paul Kasmin Gallery
5. CULTURAL HISTORY
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Jean-Luc Mylayne, PO-30, Janvier-Fevrier, 2006Unique color print, 123 x 153 cm., Coll. Jean Luc Mylayne
5. CULTURAL HISTORY