This Friday November 21 visit Pitt’s Hillman Library for their Annual Audubon Day, 9:00am to 4:45pm.
This year the event commemorates the passenger pigeon and showcases Audubon’s 1824 passenger pigeon plate, believed to be the only bird he painted in Pittsburgh. Visit Room 363 to see this and more than 24 prints from John James Audubon’s Birds of America.
At 10:00am, in the Amy E. Knapp Room, don’t miss Chris Kubiak’s presentation on the the causes and consequences of the passenger pigeon’s extinction and the controversial effort to revive it through cloning.
Audubon Day is free and open to the public. Call 412–648-8199 or click on the image above for more information.
(photo of John James Audubon’s passenger pigeons, courtesy University of Pittsburgh. Click on the image to see the news release)
Can’t be there, but I greatly enjoy Pitt’s digital library of the Audubons. My local actual place to view them is The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA, one of my favorite man-made places. Such beautiful works, we are lucky to have them.
Just north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, (in St. Francisville) Audubon spent time tutoring a young lady and did multiple drawings. The home still stands and is now a State Historical Site. Well worth a visit.