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Marjorie Shelley

Marjorie Shelley has been the Conservator of Prints and Drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, since 1974. Shelley’s expertise is in all media on paper and associated materials. An essay of Shelley’s, entitled “Drawing Birds: Audubon’s Artistic Practices,” appears in Roberta Olson’s Audubon's Aviary Limited Edition: The Original Watercolors for The Birds of America.

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