ARTIST: Earnest William Steffen (Iowa, 1891 - 1981)
NAME: Audubon Warbler
MEDIUM: watercolor on paper
YEAR: 1955
CONDITION: Excellent.
SIGHT SIZE: 14 x 10 inches / 35 x 25 cm
FRAME SIZE: 17 x 11 inches / 43 x 28 cm
SIGNED: Lower left
SIMILAR ARTISTS: John James Laforest Audubon, John Henry Dick, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Robert Bruce Horsfall, Francis Lee Jaques, Titian Ramsay Peale, Roger Tory Peterson, Earl Lincoln Poole, John Ruthven, Arthur Singer, Walter Alois Weber
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
SKU#: 114825
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Earnest William Steffen (Iowa, 1891 - 1981)
Steffen was a noted painter of American birds, based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was a member of the Iowa Ornithologists Union and frequent contributor to their quarterly journal Iowa Bird Life. His interest in birds began in childhood, and continued through his college studies at Cornell College in Iowa. At this time he also served in World War I. Steffen then worked as a special education teacher in the Cedar Rapids schools, and during the summers, he and his wife traveled extensively, visiting national parks where he would sketch the birds. After retiring in 1956, the Steffens purchased a cabin in Minnesota on Lake Superior, where he made an extensive series of paintings of birds. During his lifetime, Steffen exhibited his paintings throughout the United States and gave lectures to nature enthusiasts. Steffen also provided illustrations for the book Birds of South Dakota, published by the South Dakota Ornithologists Union. Two of his paintings belong to the permanent collection of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.