Transport yourself into the Golden Age of Natural History with this beautiful copy of John James Audubon’s Lewis’s Woodpecker (Melanerpes Lewis), originally published in his iconic masterwork folio The Birds of America. Featuring one of the most unique and iridescent birds of the American West, this work depicts the elusive Lewis’s Woodpecker, which was named for its discovery by explorer Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. This artwork includes an iridescent, nontraditional woodpecker design with a dark, greenish-black back, silvery-gray collar, and vivid pinkish-red belly.John James Audubon’s dynamic composition brings the work to life with the subjects beautifully positioned on the rough-barked trees, accentuating their unique climbing claws and rigid tail feathers. Each intricate element of the painting, from the individual plumage shades to the delicate mosses growing on the tree branches, illustrates the extraordinary level of detail in Audubon’s wilderness journals.
