Menaboni Oil, White Herons

MENABONI, Athos (1895-1990).
[Untitled] White Herons in the Woods.
Oil on canvas.
Singed lower right: "Athos Menaboni".
19 1/2” x 15 1/2” visible, 27 1/2” x 23 1/2” framed.
Athos Menaboni is widely regarded as one of the world's finest illustrators and painters of bird life and hailed by wildlife lovers, art collectors, and ornithologists alike as the twentieth-century Audubon. A significant figure in Atlanta art, Athos Menaboni built a monumental reputation, achieving nationwide fame in the 1940s and 1950s. Like Audubon, Menaboni's attentiveness to nature is both dramatic and enchanting, but unlike his distinguished predecessor, he sketched from live specimens, thereby surpassing Audubon in endowing his subjects with vitality.