Above: "Duck Hawk after Widgeon," a watercolor and pencil painting by William J. Beecher (1914-2002), created while he was in the New Deal's Section of Fine Arts, 1940. Beecher directed the Chicago Academy of Sciences from 1958 to 1983, and invented a special type of binocular for bird watching - the Beecher Mirage. (See, "William J. Beecher, 88," Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2002.) Image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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