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John James Audubon

[West Indian-born American Illustrator, 1785-1851]

• Relationships: Father of John Woodhouse Audubon.
• Subject matter:  Specializes in Birds.
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Original works by John James Audubon available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Fox and Goose, ca.1835

John James Audubon at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
4 works by John James Audubon

Louvre Museum La Fayette Database of American Art, Paris

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Drawings collection online

John James Audubon at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
36 works by John James Audubon

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Carolina Parakeet (Carolina Parrot)

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Bald Eagle (White-headed Eagle)

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Several works by Audubon

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Hooping Crane. Grus americana. Adult Male.

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Oregon Flying Squirrel

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon, 1844

Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles   NEW!

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Black Vulture or Carrion Crow

DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Iceland or Jer Falcon

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
The Wild Turkey

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
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Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester

Museum of Nebraska Art at the University of Nebraska

National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

New-York Historical Society

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Cat Squirrel

Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
American Elk

John James Audubon at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Stark Museum of Art, Texas
2 works online

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
Eagle, from The Birds of America, Vol. 1

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Canada Jay (Corvus Canadensis, Linn), lithograph

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
John James Audubon in the Art Renewal Center

John James Audubon at CGFA  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

John James Audubon at The Athenaeum  
10 works online by Audubon

 
Other Web Sites:
National Audubon Society
Brief biography of the artist. Not much about Audubon's art on this site.

PBS
Biography, from the American Masters TV series

The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Woodducks - Elephant Folio, print

Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John James Audubon
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Art & Antiques Magazine
"Call of the Wild"

Resource Library Magazine

Smithsonian Magazine
"Rare Bird"

  
 
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