Abstract
What could be harder to define
than art? Art has been called "nature
made by man:' It 's been termed
"truth;' "beauty;' "the shadow of
divine perfection:' Pretty heady ideas
- all. And yet, if you live with art, if
it is the passion of your existence, art
can easily be defined as "life:'
Lots of people collect art. They like
to keep beautiful things close at hand.
They may specialize in still lifes, in
portraits, land or seascapes. But few
collect " pigeon art:' Lynn Watson
does.
As far back as 1959, when Watson
was just a school kid , he loved
pigeons. Fact is, he was raising them
at the age of five. But prior to that
time he had never known there were
books or paintings depicting the
infinite variety of these birds. Then a
friend showed him a marked catalogue
from the Los Angeles Pigeon
Club's famous "Pageant of Pigeons"
and a passion for pigeon art was
born.
At the age of fifteen , Lynn became a
member of the Los Angeles Pigeon
Club and received the club's bulletins,
then being both expensively and
expansively produced by Don
Andrews, a man with considerable
reputation as a pigeon lover, and a
collector of outstanding pigeon art.
It was meeting Mr. Andrews and
another pigeoneer of longstanding,
Mr. George Neuerburg (one-time president
of the LAPC) which opened
young Watson's eyes to the fascinating
pleasure of collecting beautiful
pigeon paintings.