Word: audubon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alarmed at the plight of U. S. birds whose food supply has been buried under deep snow, Audubon Society officials recently went to the Post Office Department with an idea. Last week First Assistant Postmaster General Arch Coleman announced that bird-lovers may mail cracked corn and small grain, to be scattered by rural mail carriers along their routes. Sufficient address: "Mr. & Mrs. Bird...
Announcement of the gift to Harvard University of one of the most famous paintings by John James Audubon, known as "Wild Turkeys" was made yesterday by authorities. The picture will be hung in the near future...
...amateur Ornithologist Philip Marston Brasher (for whom the Brasher warbler was named), Rex early heard his father's criticisms of the famed Audubon bird plates which often carry naturalism, composition and color beyond the point of probability. In 1879, aged 10, Rex Brasher decided to paint all the birds in North America himself. After his father died, he learned taxidermy, went to St. Francis College (Brooklyn) and at 15 to work in the engraving department of Tiffany & Co. No longer prosperous was his family, whose founder, according to the family legend, had come to Manhattan in 1621 as the wealthy...
...subscribers, leafing last week through the twelve handsome volumes, each 13 by 18 in. and 2 in. thick, inevitably measured Brasher against his predecessors. All critics agree that Audubon's beautiful plates take liberties. Many of his birds are wrong in proportion, action, color and anatomy as well as in the conventional classification of Audubon's time (particularly the flycatcher family). A genius, unwilling to allow any plate to be un-notable, Audubon often made his birds unrealistically spectacular. Critics perceive that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish...
...Audubon's friends made him the rival of Alexander Wilson, so Brasher's have pitted his work against that of the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Married, facing the compulsion of supporting his fam ily. Fuertes wanted to paint all North American birds but had to limit himself chiefly to illustration work. He encouraged and helped Rex Brasher, adding his own great bird erudition and subtle eye for bird character to Brasher's. Rex Brasher alone has had simultaneously the time, the ability, the monumental persistence, the hardheaded fidelity to do all the birds of North America...