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The Shirley Sherwood collection : modern masterpieces of botanical art
- Title
- The Shirley Sherwood collection : modern masterpieces of botanical art / Shirley Sherwood.
- Author
- Sherwood, Shirley
- Publication
- Kew : Kew Publishing, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ND1403.G7 S54 2019 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 312 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm
- Summary
- This book is a celebration of the Shirley Sherwood Collection of contemporary botanical art, made over a period of 30 years by Dr Shirley Sherwood and considered the most important private collection of its kind in the world. In 2018 the 1000th painting was added to the collection, a pocket handkerchief by Coral Guest. Showcasing the beauty and diversity of the collection, this book features 285 botanical paintings by 144 artists from 36 countries. The paintings are arranged in chapters by geographical origin of the artists, and each artwork is beautifully reproduced on a single page. Many of the artists are from the British Isles but there are also impressive and varied paintings from Japan, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, Russia, South Africa and the United States. The many ways used to create plant portraits are explored in watercolour, pen and ink, oils, diamond point etching on paper, vellum, glass and canvas. An additional chapter features the thousandth painting by Coral Guest, and how this was initiated and added to the collection. Biographies of all the artists featured are provided at the back of the book.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalog
- catalogs (documents)
- Catalogs.
- Catalogues.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 310) and index.
- Contents
- Foreword / Sir Peter Crane -- Introduction / Shirley Sherwood -- British Isles -- Europe -- North America -- Latin American -- South Africa -- Australasia -- Asia -- Painting the dove tree -- Artist biographies -- Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection -- The Shirley Sherwood Collection ehibitions a nd venues -- Selected bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
- ISBN
- 9781842466933
- 1842466933
- LCCN
- 2019452835
- OCLC
- on1100598086
- 1100598086
- SCSB-9702038
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library