Paul Crenshaw is associate professor of art history at Providence College. His specialty is Dutch Art of the seventeenth century and he has held lecturing and research positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Frick Art Reference Library in New York. Rebecca Tucker received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University and writes in the field of Early Modern art and patronage. She is... read more>>>
John James Audubon's paintings and descriptions of the birds of North America remain the gold standard against which all ornithological portraits are judged. His landmark work, Birds of America (1838), consisted of 435 life-size prints that were published in batches of five over the course of thirteen years. Because the prints were extremely large and had to be hand-colored by a team of painters, the cost of creating the original sets... read more>>>