John James Audubon

Title: Red-Shouldered hawk

Year painted: c 1830

Media: Oil on canvas, laid down on masonite.

Size: 39 ¼ by 26 1/4 inches

Provenance:

George Howland Snr. Direct from the artist in 1840

By decent to the current Owner

Exhibited:

May 1999 “Drawn from Nature, the Art of John James Audubon”. The Massachusetts Audubon Visual Arts Center.

2010. “Taking Flight, the Birds of John James Audubon”. The New Bedford Free Public Library.

Bibliography:

Boston Globe. Sept 5, 1999, Illustrated

Massachusetts Audubon Society Visual Arts Center Catalog, 1999

John James Audubon Diary, Houghton Library, Harvard University