Joel Oppenheimer is the owner of his eponymous firm that
serves as both a gallery and an art restoration workshop, with one
location in Chicago's famed Wrigley building and another in
Charleston on historic King Street. Founded in 1969, Oppenheimer
Gallery specialises in natural history art. Oppenheimer Gallery is
one of the preeminent dealers of Audubon watercolors and facsimile
prints and works in partnerships with museums across the country
including the New-York Historical Society. Oppenheimer is the
author of The Birds of America: The Bien Chromolithographic
Edition.
Robert Peck, curator of art and artifacts and senior fellow
of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University,
Philadelphia, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has
traveled extensively in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and
Europe. Peck is the author of many books including Land of the
Eagle: A Natural History of North America (1990); Headhunters and
Hummingbirds: An Expedition into Ecuador (1987); and A Celebration
of Birds: The Life and Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1982).
"A sublime collection of 418 suberbly detailed hand-colored
lithographs created by John Gould from the mid-1800s...If you're a
fan of natural history art, hummingbirds, or birds in general -
this unrivaled master collection of antique prints is definitely a
piece you'd want to add to your collection. " —Color Outside
the Lines
"John Gould, a 19th-century Englis hornithologist and bird artist,
had a particular interest in hummingbirds. Who can blame him? This
stunning volume features his superbly detailed hand-colored
lithographs of hundreds of species. Plus, authors Joel Oppenheimer
and Laura Oppenheimer tell hte sory of Gould's colorful life and
place his work in the context of a period when the exploration of
science and the world's natural wonders was at an all-time high."
—BirdWatching
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