The story

Every feather painted like it mattered. Because to Audubon, it did. The man spent decades in swamps and forests, obsessed with getting every bird right at life size. This Purple Heron is one of 435 plates from The Birds of America, a book so rare that a single copy sold for $11.5 million.

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Realism
Artist
John James Audubon

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