Canada Jay

Artist John James Audubon (American, 1785 - 1851)

Lithographer John T. Bowen (American, 1801 - 1856)

Datec. 1839

Mediumlithograph on white wove paper, hand-colored

DimensionsOctavo: 10 3/4 × 6 7/8 inches (27.3 × 17.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number11.1.7.76

ClassificationsPrints

Label TextJohn James Audubon followed a personal passion to study birds. He depicted birds in active poses and in their appropriate habitat. This print is a pattern plate for an edition of his The Birds of America. Pattern plates were the guides for the colorists to add colors by hand. In this image, Audubon depicted the species that he and Alexander Wilson called the Canada Jay. Wilson’s version is on view in the open book next to this print. Today the common name for this bird is the Gray Jay.

ProvenancePurchased September 11, 1957 through (Nada Kramar, Washington, D.C.) by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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