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Olson studies it from every angle. He gets as good photographs as possible, visits museums, aviaries and zoos, sees them alive if possible. He can study bird skins for the beaks feet, color shades, but not for the general anatomy because they would be somewhat distorted. He must work from charts and skeletal studies. One of his favorite birds is his Elf owl of the Arizona desert it took 75 hours, and stands on a base of California grapevine.

Painting the birds is a chancy part the colors must be just right and there can be no mistakes. If the carving is exact and the colors wrong, the entire bird hits the dust. Mr. Olson was born in Greens-burg, raised in Freeport, and took art courses at the University of Wisconsin, Carnegie-Mellon, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. He taught manual arts at Thorn-burg School, did maintenance and carpenter work through the years to earn enough money to allow him to pursue his sculpting.

He also did a series of lifelike models of animals for a toy manufacturer. A widower, he married his second wife, Grace Hammill, former assistant dean of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1964. She's getting used to life in the wood and hills. "When the live birds hop on the sill, it's as if they were trying to get the attention of the ones inside," she said. "We saw a red fox near the road the other morning, and a pheasant, lots of squirrels.

Every day there's something else interesting." The house is quiet and serene a place of books, music and nature an ideal location for a meticulous carver of birds. Field Museum at Chicago. They are sold in some of the best department stores across the country, and are displayed at the University of Arizona and the Seligmann Gallery in New York. In addition, they are in many private art collections. He has done many birds of this country and South America, and now is working on the birds of Nepal, Bhutan, Garhwal and Sikkim for the King of Sikkim.

"They're beautiful such colors. I'm going to do seven suggested by an Indian ornithologist," says Mr. Olson. "It's a great assignment the Himalayan birds are gorgeous. I wish I could see some of the birds, but I'll have to do it all through books and charts.

Bird skins would be great help." Mr. Olson's demand for accuracy makes the carving very slow and difficult. "In work like this," he says, "the smallest things are important the angle of the beak, the set of the eyes, and at first, you don't realize how many different kinds of eyes there are we have to order an assortment from the taxidermy people." The only machine work Mr. Olson does is to cut the general outline, called the template, on a bandsaw. This is an accurate and finely detailed drawing of the bird on stiff cardboard.

Sometimes, three views are needed the side, top and front view. These are cut from accurate drawings. But he does all the carving by hand, and to see him at work is to see patience in action. A tiny chip here, a little gouge there and every bit is thought out in advance. There is no room for error, and Mr.

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