Art in Kentucky - Artists from Kentucky, Monuments and Memorials in Kentucky, John James Audubon, Sam Gilliam, Irene Moon (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Chapters: Artists From Kentucky, Monuments and Memorials in Kentucky, John James Audubon, Sam Gilliam, Irene Moon, Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial, George C. Wolfe, Kate Matthews, Enid Yandell, Frank Duveneck, Samuel Woodson Price, Kentucky Medal of Honor Memorial, Harlan Hubbard, David W. Mack, Tony Moore, Ed Hamilton, Robert Burns Wilson, Calvin Maglinger, Barney Bright, Edward Troye, Victor Hammer, Ray Harm, William Kincaid, Patriots Peace Memorial, Paul Sawyier, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, Dixie Selden, Carl Christian Brenner, Matthew Harris Jouett, Guinever Smith, Joel Tanner Hart, Memorial Hall, Pat Brady, George Beck, Edgar Tolson, Stephen S. Sawyer, Henry Faulkner. Excerpt: John James Audubon (April 26, 1785 January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, hunter, and painter. He painted, catalogued, and described the birds of North America in a form far superior to what had gone before. Born in Haiti and raised in France as a youth, in his embrace of America, and his outsize personality and achievements, he represented the new American people of the United States. Audubon was born in Les Cayes, Haiti (then the colony of Saint-Domingue) on his father's sugar plantation. He was the illegitimate son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer (and privateer), and his mistress Jeanne Rabin, a chambermaid recently arrived from France. They named the boy Jean Rabin. His mother died when the boy was a few months old, as she had suffered from tropical diseases since arriving on the island. His father already had two mixed-race children by his mulatto housekeeper, Sanitte, and he took up with her again and had another daughter following Jeanne Rabin's death. Sanitte also took care of the infant boy Jean. During the American Revolution, Jean Audubon was imprisoned by the British. Aft...