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Early bird paintings and prints of John J. Audubon are on display on the first two floors of Widener Library. The exhibition, prepared by the College Library and the Museum of Comparative Zoology, commorates the 100th anniversary of the ornithologist's death...
...Audubon published his magnum opus, "Birds of America." His determination to represent even the largest birds in life size dictated the folio's enormous dimensions, 39 1-2 by 29 1-2 inches. As a result the book is referred to as the double elephant edition...
...exhibition, which closes March 1, mainly compares the original drawings with the plates. Some of Audubon's manuscripts, letters, and accounts are also included. Aslo his only surviving life mask is displayed...
...some ways, Athos Menaboni is a better bird painter than was the great John James Audubon. He lacks Audubon's infallibly dramatic sense of composition and of action, but Menaboni is even more accurate about details and he comes closer to approximating the faintly metallic sheen of plumage in paint. So it is no wonder that Menaboni's Birds (Rinehart; $10) has become one of the season's most successful art books, selling out its first 25,000-copy printing before publication...
...collect two of each species a year for his pictures). Whenever possible, Menaboni draws his birds from life, to get the action right, sometimes dispatches them to do the plumage. The fact that he can keep them fresh in a refrigerator, he says, is a big advantage that Audubon would have appreciated. Another and greater advantage is his ability to make use of highspeed snapshots that show precisely the motions of birds in flight...