Brown University Library News

A volume of John James Audubon’s master work, The Birds of America, is on display on the main floor of the John Hay Library. Each plate will be on display for only one month. This month’s plate contains several birds: the Lark Finch, the Prairie Finch and the Brown Song Sparrow. The library is open 9 to 5, Monday through Friday.
This elephant folio edition of The Birds of America, bound in six volumes, was presented by Albert E. Lownes to the Library on the occasion of his 50th class reunion in 1970.
For more information please contact Hay@brown.edu

Paintings and book art by Walter Feldman will be on display in the Study Area on Level A of the Rockefeller Library from September 7th-October 5th.
Feldman is a longtime professor of art and the John Hay Professor of Bibliography at Brown. He studied at Yale with Willem De Kooning and Josef Albers, where he earned both his BFA and MFA. Professor Feldman has received numerous honors including the gold medal at the Mostra Internazionale in Milan and the Tonner Prize from the American Color Print Society. His work has been featured in several one-person and group exhibitions at museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; and the Brooklyn Museum.