painters, american

Examines the career, achievements, and motivations behind the American portrait painter of the rich and famous.

Recounts the life of John James Audubon, dreamer, vagabond, romantic, and genius, who traveled the backroads and bayous of the American wilderness searching out and studying birds. He was no amateur ornithologist; rather, he drew his birds from life, and his work always carried the line "drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon".

Folk artist Mattie Lou O'Kelley recalls her rural Georgia childhood in words and paintings.