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John James Audubon: Extinct and Endangered Species Exhibition Opens - ISM Springfield

  John James Audubon: Extinct and Endangered Species Exhibition Opens   

John James Audubon: Extinct and Endangered Species Exhibition Opens

A selection of the Illinois State Museum's John James Audubon print collection will be showcased in a new exhibition in the Museum's temporary|PERMANENTgallery on the second floor. In homage to the 100th anniversary of last passenger pigeon, Jim Zimmer, Director of Art and History, has chosen prints which reflect bird species that have become nationally extinct or endangered since Audubon first captured their life-size images almost two centuries ago or whose presence have more recently been compromised in Illinois.

The selected prints on view include two from the first edition of The Birds of America, etched and hand colored from Audubon’s original paintings by Robert Havell and Sons of London between 1827 and 1838. The remaining prints on view are fine examples of chromolithography printed by Julius Bien of New York between 1858 and 1860. Both of these editions were printed in double-elephant size, which allowed Audubon’s watercolors of life-sized birds to be printed at their original size.  

The species featured in this exhibition were selected by Zimmer out of the ninety-seven prints contained in the Illinois State Museum Audubon Collection. All were generously donated to the Illinois State Museum in 1947 by the Estate of Judge R. Magoon Barnes (1862–1945).

For more information read the press release.



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