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A Summer of Birds

John James Audubon at Oakley House

Danny Heitman

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte

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Over the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon worked as a tutor at Oakley Plantation in Louisiana’s rural West Feliciana Parish. This move initiated a profound change in direction for the struggling artist. Oakley’s woods teemed with life, galvanizing Audubon to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of America’s 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 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.

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St. Francisville, plantation, Birds of America, Joseph Mason, Bayou Sara, Lucy Audubon, West Feliciana Parish, Lucretia James Eliza Pirrie, painting, Alexander Wilson, Ornithological Biography, fair incognito, Louisiana, New Orleans, 1821