Museums

Museum welcomes 'Audubon of West'

Visitors to the Kern County Museum, 3801 Chester Avenue in Bakersfield, have the rare opportunity to see some of the most famous wildlife paintings by the artist known as "Audubon of the West," Andrew Jackson Grayson. The exhibit, which opened April 29, explores western bird life through Grayson's art. It is on loan from the California Exhibition Resource Alliance and will be displayed in the museum's main gallery through June 20. At the time of his death in 1869, Grayson was the most accomplished artist of ornithology in North America. More
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