{"id":2684,"date":"2013-08-15T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=2684"},"modified":"2013-11-14T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T16:19:13","slug":"one-night-only-the-art-of-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/one-night-only-the-art-of-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"One Night Only: The Art of the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Art and bird lovers take note: On September 19 at the Massachusetts Archives\u2019 Commonwealth Museum<\/a><\/strong> in Boston, Mass Audubon will present \u201cThe Art of Birds<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d a rare, one-night exhibition displaying 28 original watercolors by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.<\/p>\n

These pieces, commissioned for Edward H. Forbush\u2019s Birds of Massachusetts (and Other New England States) <\/em>in 1925, have not been seen by the public for more than\u00a030 years.\u00a0Members of Mass Audubon\u2019s Bird Conservation program<\/a><\/strong> will present the paintings and share the stories of the birds shown.<\/p>\n

About the Artist
\n<\/b>Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927), whose skill at depicting birdlife was arguably greater even than that of John James Audubon, was meticulously accurate. His bird portraits convey a sense of the living bird by showing them in active poses within appropriate habitats. He set a new standard for bird illustration that had a profound influence on the great bird artists that succeeded him such as George Miksch Sutton and Roger Tory Peterson.
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Connecting Art, Birds, and Conservation
\n<\/b>Protecting birds for future generations was central to the founding ethos of Mass Audubon back in 1896, and many of our programs today carry on that heritage. From its earliest years, Mass Audubon used the power of art to promote conservation through the publication of numerous books, pamphlets, periodicals and posters. In fact, Forbush, who hired Fuertes, was one of the founding members of Mass Audubon and our president for 12 years.<\/p>\n

Our continuing belief in the power of art to enable people to see the value in protecting the natural world is now most prominently on display at our Museum of American Bird Art<\/a> <\/strong>(MABA) in Canton.<\/p>\n

Mass Audubon\u2019s Bird Conservation department is on the forefront of understanding the ever-changing patterns of bird populations, and what these changes may mean for the nature of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Proceeds from the exhibit will help support Mass Audubon\u2019s Bird Conservation program as well as the Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Art and bird lovers take note: On September 19 at the Massachusetts Archives\u2019 Commonwealth Museum in Boston, Mass Audubon will present \u201cThe Art of Birds,\u201d a rare, one-night exhibition displaying 28 original watercolors by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. These pieces, commissioned for Edward H. Forbush\u2019s Birds of Massachusetts (and Other New England States) in 1925, have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-Hi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11876,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/sneak-peek-at-youth-art-exhibition\/","url_meta":{"origin":2684,"position":0},"title":"Sneak Peek at Youth Art Exhibition","author":"Hillary T.","date":"November 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend marks the official opening of the Museum of American Bird Art's 3rd annual Youth Art Exhibition. 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