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The Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott
Known as the Audubon of Botany, Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary Walcott's reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women's studies, science, and art during the transformative times in which she lived. Walcott, and other intrepid women like her who sought escape from Victorian social conventions and opportunity for adventure and self-expression in the American West, were gifted artists, writers, and historians.
Wild Flowers of North America
Now available in a new, large single volume with an appendix also listing the modern plant names, this classic collection by “the Audubon of botany” features more than 250 exquisite reproductions of Walcott’s celebrated watercolors of wildflower life in the United States of America and Canada. Published in association with the Smithsonian Institution What does it take to paint a wildflower that blooms for a single day in a deep forest? For Mary Vaux Walcott, it involved spending up to seventeen hours a day out of doors with her paintbox to capture the shape, movement, and colors of delicate petals and leaves. Originally published in 1925 to enormous acclaim in five, oversized volumes, ...
Wild Flowers of America
"Lifesize illustrations and descriptive paragraphs on the origin and botanical classification of American wild flowers."--Amazon.com.
A Delicate Art
A Delicate Arthighlights the paintings and photography of six artists in Alberta who with passion and long moments of observation have made an inspired contribution to wildflower art. Covering a period of one hundred years to the present, the story behind these creators Mary Schäffer Warren, Mary Vaux Walcott, William Copeland McCalla, Annora Brown, Robert Sinclair and Carole Harmon is also told. A blend of biography, botanical and regional art history and commentary by the artists themselves about their treasured subject, A Delicate Artis intended for the lay reader and is accompanied by sumptuous reproductions of the artwork and an alluring overall design that will appeal to anyone interested in art, mountain-life and gardening.
Wild Flowers of America
Color plates are reproduced from the portifolio set North American wild flowers, as published by the Smithsonian Institution.
Gardens in Perpetual Bloom
Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes that catalogued the elaborate and extensive gardens of the well-to-do. But when Carl Linnaeus first classified the plant kingdom in 1735, the botanical book quickly took on a more scientific cast. By the nineteenth century, the flourishing of botanical publications reflected both the rapid rise of gardening as an amateur hobby and the desire of artists and decorators for new visual resources. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom: Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850 ...
Plunging
Poem about the deadly fall of a construction worker from a nearly completed condominium.
American Wildflower Florilegium
With the cooperation of the Dept. of Botany at the U. of Texas and the National Wildflower Research Ctr., Andrews does for wildflowers what she did for peppers in her Peppers: the Domesticated Capsicums-- namely combine her striking botanical art with an informative text to create a volume of both artistic and scientific value. She pairs 52 lovely American wildflowers with a treatise giving the common name, scientific name, family origin, range, description, bloom period, pollinators, habitat requirements, propagation, remarks and etymology, and references. 9.25x12". Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Painting Folk Art Flowers with Enid Hoessinger
Hoessinger''s teaching has helped thousands of decorative painters around the world discover the joy of painting in the folk art style. In this book, she illustrates her techniques step-by-step, showing how to paint 20 flower variations.'
