LARRY MCQUEEN, originally from Mifflinburg, Pennsylvania, earned a degree in wildlife conservation from Idaho State University and studied art at the University of Oregon. McQueen’s artistic work is widely known, having appeared in catalogs of ecotourism, calendars, ornithological journals, magazines, and books, and his paintings have been exhibited in museums in this country and abroad. His work appears throughout the Cornell Lab’s Web site, as well as that of BirdSource. He has produced a number of garden-bird posters for “Windsor Nature Discovery Publications” and for the Cornell Lab’s own FeederWatch project. His bird plates can be found in many field guides, including the National Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding, the American Bird Conservancy’s All The Birds, Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, Birds of South Asia—The Ripley Guide, and Birds of Peru. McQueen now lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he produces his own paintings.
JON JANOSIK began his professional career as an assistant illustrator at the Yale University Peabody Museum. Since then, his work has been featured in such books as Birds of the Ligonier Valley, the National Audubon Society Master Guide to Birding, An Audubon Handbook: Western/Eastern Birds, Book of North American Birds, and Field Guide to North American Birds. Janosik’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Smithsonian (Washington, D.C.), the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), the British Museum (London, England), the Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh, Scotland), and the Kobe Museum (Sanda, Japan). Having traveled worldwide to study birds, Janosik now devotes most of his time to painting commissions from international collectors at his home in the Willamette Valley region of Oregon.