2024 A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House (The Hill Collection:

Product Name: 2024 A Summer of Birds: John James Audubon at Oakley House (The Hill Collection:
EAN：9780807172933 UPC：9780807172933 ISBN：9780807172933 MPN：N/A 2024 Format：Paperback, 152 pages
Over the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon worked as a tutor at Oakley Plantation in Louisianas rural West Feliciana Parish. This move initiated a profound change in direction for the struggling artist. Oakleys woods teemed with life, galvanizing Audubon to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of Americas birds. That summer, Audubon began what would eventually become his four-volume opus, Birds of America.

In A Summer of Birds, Danny Heitman recounts the season that shaped Audubons destiny, sorting facts from romance to give an intimate view of the worlds most famous bird artist. A new preface marks the two-hundredth anniversary of that eventful interlude, reflecting on Audubons enduring legacy among artists, aesthetes, and nature lovers in Louisiana and around the world..