Word: avian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Doughty's porcelain birds are as meticulously realistic as Audubon's. But she does not depend on him for her avian observations. For that purpose she had a big wire cage constructed around an old apple tree, filled it with birds imported from the U.S. There Artist Doughty spends months studying her birds, sketching poses, shaping preliminary models. Then, in a single intense day of disciplined haste, a final image is made. Because porcelain products shrink to one-third model-size when fired in the kiln (the temperature goes as high as 1,200° F.), they...