John James Audubon
Special Topics
Here are listed books and articles about Audubon's development as an artist, his surviving early drawings, and other special topics related primarily to The Birds of America. Included are works about the identification of Audubon prints (Birds as well as Quadrupeds). For links to descriptions of collections containing early Audubon drawings, see under Manuscript Collections in this guide, in the section "Collections Elsewhere."
Call numbers without a location after them indicate a title is held in more than one location at LSU Libraries. See linked catalog records for details.
- Audubon's butterflies, moths, and other studies byCall Number: QL151 .F65Publication Date: 1952The authenticity of the sketchbook that is the subject of this publication has been questioned.
- "The metamorphosis of John James Audubon" byCall Number: N1 .A64 v. 26 LSU-MAINPublication Date: 1963In: The Art Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4 (1963), pages 461-479.
- Audubon watercolors and drawings byCall Number: QL674 .A9 1965 McIlhenny and LLMVCPublication Date: 1965Catalog of an exhibition
- My style of drawing birds byCall Number: QL673 .A86 1979 McIlhennyPublication Date: 1979This text is also found in some anthologies of Audubon's writings listed under "Ornithological Biography and Anthologies" in this guide.
- Bird etchings : the illustrators and their books, 1655-1855 byCall Number: NE2043 .J33 1985Publication Date: 1985Includes a chapter on Audubon, pages 230-246.
- "Audubon and his legacy" byCall Number: N1 .A43 v. 73 LSU-MAINPublication Date: 1985In: Art in America, vol. 73, no. 9 (Sept. 1985), pages 99-108.
- From nature : John James Audubon's drawings and watercolors, 1805-1826 byCall Number: QL31 .A9 P3 1992A LLMVCPublication Date: 1992PhD dissertation, University of Delaware
- "Violence and artistic representation in John James Audubon" byCall Number: AS30 .R37 v. 15 LSU-MAINPublication Date: 1995In: Raritan, vol. 15, no. 2 (Fall 1995), pages 1-34.
- Handbook of Audubon prints byCall Number: QL31 .A9 B36 1998 REF LLMVCPublication Date: 19984th edition. Three earlier editions are also held.
- Identifying Audubon bird prints : originals, states, editions, restrikes, and facsimiles and reproductions byCall Number: QL674 .B73 2001 McIlhennyPublication Date: 2001
- Audubon art prints : a collector's guide to every edition byCall Number: QL31 .A9 S74 2003 McIlhennyPublication Date: 2003
- "Cutting up Audubon for science and art" byCall Number: NK1125 .A3 v. 164 LSU-MAINPublication Date: 2003In: The Magazine Antiques, vol. 164 (October 2003), pages 104-113.
- "The 'early birds' of John James Audubon" by Roberta J. M. OlsonArticle originally published in: Master Drawings, vol. 50, no. 4 (2012)
- "The heart of Audubon" by Matthew R. HalleyOnline article first published in 2015, includes images and transcriptions of five Audubon letters held in Haverford College Library, Haverford, Pennsylvania
- "John James Audubon: crazy, wrong, or neither?" by Nicholas LundOnline post from National Audubon Society concerning "mystery birds" in "The Birds of America" folio edition