Guy Adwill Tudor (1934 – )

I first saw reproductions of Tudor’s bird paintings too late in my life for his art to qualify as having influenced my early years, but I want to mention it anyway as I think he was a master of the vignette…the floating image of a realistically painted bird accompanied by a touch of habitat, showing a life-like pose that nevertheless satisfied the birder’s desire to see all major features of color and pattern. Plus, he specialized in neotropical species to my enormous satisfaction. I know of no recent work of his but while he did not influence my early years, being unknown to me at that period in my life, his illustrations brought great pleasure to me from my middle age onward.