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Also displayed are examples of the artist's correspondence and the famous "elephant folio" edition of his book "Birds of America," published in 1827-38. The "elephant folio," sized three feet by two feet, is one of the largest books ever issued. Rated by many as the world's most beautiful ornithology, it contains hundreds of colored engravings of birds in their habitats, and is believed to be the first attempt to portray birds in natural poses...
...connection with the folio, the exhibit illustrates the famous controversy Audubon aroused as to whether rattlesnakes climb trees. The artist portrayed four meeking birds battling a rattlesnake for possession of the birds' nest and eggs. Immediately the picture was challenged as scientifically inaccurate. In a letter Audubon wrote his wife in 1831, "Know ye all men that Rattlesnake do clime trees...
Five months ago Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art crowned its notable 1936-3 7 season with a comprehensive exhibit of the very latest artistic wrinkle, Surrealism. With a vertiginous backward leap 200 centuries into the Fourth Ice Age, the Museum last week wound up its season by presenting an extraordinary collection of Prehistoric Rock Pictures. Director Alfred Barr Jr. saw no paradox. He recalled that many cave decorations were magic symbols to help the painter with his hunting, and thus "today walls are painted so that the artist may eat," whereas "in prehistoric times walls were painted...
...taken their chisels and paint brushes down into Africa after the last glacial period, and on his first expedition to North Africa in 1912, Professor Frobenius opened up the richest continental deposit of cave paintings and engravings. It was already known that in Magdalenian times some artist had smeared iron oxide on a cavern wall at Altamira, in north Spain. Cunningly he had fashioned a lively bison, with a fine high hump, muscular forelegs, a head set well enough to do justice to contemporary Animal Artist John Raltenbury Skeaping (TIME, May 3). In Khotsa Cave, 5,000 mi. from Spain...
Edward VI, Prince of Wales by Holbein, generally considered the last portrait ever painted by the great German artist, court painter to Henry VIII, Mr. Bache found a bargain...