A Bit of Art History: Audubon Cache Mystery Cache
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A Bit of Art History: Audubon Cache
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This cache is dedicated to John James Audubon, and is located in
the area of the Prospect Park Audubon Center.
John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a
French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He
was born in Saint Domingue (now Haiti). He was raised by his
stepmother in Nantes, France, and took an interest in birds,
nature, and drawing. In 1803 at the age of 18, he was sent to
America. He lived on the family-owned estate at Mill Grove, near
Philadelphia, where he hunted, studied, and drew birds. While
there, he conducted the first known bird-banding experiment in
North America. Tying strings around the legs of Eastern Phoebes he
learned that the birds returned to the very same nesting sites each
year. In October of 1820, Audubon traveled throughout Mississippi,
Alabama, and Florida in search of ornithological specimens. Audubon
planned to compile his findings into a future work, and attempted
to paint one page of specimens each day.
Most of us know Audubon solely for his ornithological work, but he
was also an accomplished artist. He was skilled at sketching and
charcoal drawing (making and selling portraits in charcoal to
support himself), and taught as a drawing instructor. In 1823,
Audubon took lessons in oil painting from John Steen, a teacher of
American landscape, and renowned history painter Thomas Cole. He
also studied oil painting under Thomas Sully, one of the most
famous portrait painters of his time. Though he did not use oils
much for his bird work, Audubon earned good money painting oil
portraits for patrons along the Mississippi.
After being denied publication in the U.S., Audubon went overseas.
The British greatly admired his images of wild America. He toured
around England and Scotland, and was praised as "the American
woodsman." He raised enough money to begin publishing his Birds
of America. This epic work consists of 435 hand-colored,
life-size prints of birds made from engraved copper plates of
various sizes depending on the size of the image. They were printed
on sheets measuring about 39 by 26 inches. The work contains just
over 700 North American bird species.
Puzzle:
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Little Screech Owl
Great Horned Owl
Common Buzzard
Yellow-throated Wood Warbler
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Bonaparte's Flycatching Warbler
Great Crested Flycatcher
Harlan's Buzzard
White-bellied Swallow
You are looking for a blue, sandwich-sized Tupperware container.
Please replace the cache as good as or better than you found
it.
Happy Caching!
Congrats to schbus86 for the FTF!
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