David allen sibley biography of william

February 26–October 5, 2019

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 28, 2019, 5:30-7:30 p.m.
Meet the Artist and Gallery Walkthrough: Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 7-9:00 p.m.
Understanding Birds through Drawing: Thursday, April 4, 2019, 5:30 p.m.

The Art of Identification, a collection of watercolors by celebrated bird illustrator, ornithologist, and author David Allen Sibley, is on view at the University of Mississippi Museum beginning February 26.

The exhibit will display 25 original paintings from the Sibley Guides to Birds and Trees, as well as a few earlier works from the illustrator.

“Mr. Sibley exhibits in museums very infrequently, so this is a particularly great opportunity for Oxford and [the University],” said Robert Saarnio, director of the University of Mississippi Museum. “There is an appeal of partnering with such a wide range of organizations and we saw immediately the possibility of other related elements in the Permanent Collection supporting this show, such as recently-gifted, but not yet displayed, Audubon prints, and our Boehm ceramic birds collection.”

The UM Museum will host an opening reception on Thursday, February 28 at 5:30pm to celebrate the exhibit, which is on view until September 7, 2019. Sibley will visit the museum in April for several appearances and events, including a gallery walkthrough on April 2, a step-by-step demonstration on April 4, as well as to meet with students and local birding groups in the area. A full schedule of events can be found under the events tab.

“For me drawing is a tool, a method of study. It helps me to really dig in and develop an understanding of the things I am drawing, and the simple act of sketching has led to all kinds of discoveries,” Sibley said.

“Ultimately, I think the reward of studying nature is the chance to feel like a part of something bigger: to understand the patterns and rhythms of the natural world, to know what part each bird or tree is pla

PERSONAL: Born 1962, in NY; son of Fred Sibley (an ornithologist); married Joan Walsh (an ornithologist), 1993; children: Evan, Joel. Education: Attended Cornell University.

ADDRESSES: Home—Concord, MA. Offıce—c/o Author Mail, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 299 Park Ave., 4th Fl., New York, NY 10171. E-mail—sibleyart@ yahoo.com.

CAREER: Writer and illustrator. Has held positions with Cape May Bird Observatory, Cape May, NJ, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, and Manomet Bird Observatory, Manomet, MA; birding tour guide.

WRITINGS:

SELF ILLUSTRATED

(With Pete Dunne and Clay Sutton) Hawks in Flight:The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1988.

The Birds of Cape May, with additional illustrations by Louise Zemaitis and Julian Hough, Cape May Bird Observatory (Cape May, NJ), 1993.

National Audubon Society: The Sibley Guide to Birds, Knopf (New York, NY), 2000.

(Editor, with Chris Elphick and John B. Dunning, Jr.) The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior, Knopf (New York, NY), 2001.

Sibley's Birding Basics: How to Identify Birds, Using the Clues in Feathers, Habitats, Behaviors and Sounds, Knopf (New York, NY), 2002.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern NorthAmerica, Knopf (New York, NY), 2003.

The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western NorthAmerican, Knopf (New York, NY), 2003.

ILLUSTRATOR

Pete Dunne, Debbie Keller, and Rene Kochenberger, Hawk Watch: A Guide for Beginners, Cape May Bird Observatory (Cape May, NJ), 1984.

William J. Boyle, Jr., A Guide to Bird-Finding in NewJersey, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1986.

Pete Dunne, Tales of a Low-Rent Birder, Rutgers University Press (New Brunswick, NJ), 1986, reprinted, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1994.

Robert F. Andrle and Janet R. Carroll, The Atlas ofBreeding Birds in New York State,Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1988.

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