DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Around 80 original prints, paintings, and related artifacts from artist John James Audubon will soon be on display at the Museum of Arts & Sciences in Daytona Beach.
The “Audubon’s Birds of Florida” art show runs Sept. 21 through March 2 in the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art.
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“A masterpiece of printmaking, these exquisite, life-size illustrations are part of Audubon’s ground-breaking 435-count compendium The Birds of America, the culmination of the artist’s ambition to paint every bird species in North America,” the museum’s website states.
The artwork is from the Cici and Hyatt Brown Collection, which focus on a selection of birds the artist saw or wrote about from Florida in “Ornithological Biography”, as well as the majority of birds he painted while in Florida, according to the museum.
John James Audubon’s Florida expedition took him through several areas that are now part of the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail. The GFBWT consists of over 500 locations statewide, recognized as some of the best places in Florida to observe birds and wildlife. Managed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the GFBWT allows today’s birders to follow in Audubon’s footsteps and encounter many of the iconic species he once painted and described.
To learn more about the show and the Museum of Arts & Sciences, click here.