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Arthur Singer "Birds of North America Series" Botanical Prints
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Arthur Singer "Birds of North America Series" Botanical Prints
 
This is a wonderful pair of vintage prints in gold wood frames that were produced and signed by Arthur Singer in the 1960's. These two are #2 and #5 from the series, Birds of North America. In the late 50's and 60's Arthur Singer was one of America's best known bird painters. He was born in 1917 in New York City. His fascination with wildlife began early, with regular visits to the Bronx Zoo. By his mid-teens, Singer had already created a substantial body of early work, compositions drawn from first-hand observations of big game animals and birds at the zoo. His interest in wildlife art led him directly to the work of Audobon and Fuertes as well as a vision of what he later hoped to accomplish. After a formal art education at the Cooper Union and 4 years of service in the war, he settled into family life and a job as an art director, while pursuing his dream of being a wildlife artist. After the set of prints "State Birds" comissioned for the American Home magazine had achieved enormous success, Singer was offered several contracts to illustrate books on birds. The year was 1958 and Singer became a full-time bird painter. Over his carreer, Arthur Singer illustrated more than 20 books & guides, several series of prints, porcelain plates, the hugely successful Postal offering Birds & Flowers of the Fifty States (selling over 500 million sets of 50 stamps) as well as numerous oil and watercolor paintings. He had earned an international reputation and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson's Master Bird Painter award in 1981, the Audobon Society's Hal Borland Award in 1985 and Cooper Union's first Augustus St. Gaudins medal for lifetime achievement. Since his death in 1990 there have been six retrospective exhibits, including a major retrospective at the Leigh Yawkey Woodsen Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin.
 
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