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Roberta Olson – Audubon Redrawn: New Light on the Artist and the Birds he Painted
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 6:00 P.M. to 7:30 Central Standard Time Online FREE The John James Audubon Museum is excited to host its first online presentation by Dr. Roberta J. M. Olson! Roberta Olson received her Ph.D. in Art History from Princeton University. Curator of Drawings Emerita at The New York Historical and Professor Emerita of Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts, her interdisciplinary research concerns drawings, Italian Renaissance art, and representations of birds and astronomical phenomena. Among her most recent books are: Audubon as Artist: A New Look at “The Birds of America” which she will be discussing in this presentation. She is collaborating with the publisher Taschen on a double-elephant-folio-size book of all the Audubon-Havell plates entitled John James Audubon and The Birds of America. This event is free to the public and will be accessible through a link that will be posted to our social media pages. A short Q&A will follow the presentation. Contact: Museum Curator Connor Humphrey at (502) 782-9716 or [email protected] Friends of Audubon John James Audubon State Park P.O. Box 576 3100 US Highway 41 North Henderson, KY 42419 270-826-2247 Comments are closed.
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