Joseph Mason (1808 – October 8, 1842)[a] was an American artist who worked as an assistant to John James Audubon, painting uncredited plant-life backgrounds for some 50 of his bird studies for the book The Birds of America.
Plate 15 from Birds of America, with northern parula birds (then called blue yellow-backed warblers) painted by John James Audubon and an Iris fulva flower stalk painted by Joseph Mason, 1821. The original watercolor is held by the New York Historical Society.
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