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Drawing from life : Maud H. Purdy and 90 years of women artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Title
- Drawing from life : Maud H. Purdy and 90 years of women artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden / Patricia Jonas.
- Author
- Jonas, Patricia.
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Botanic Garden, ©2007.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QK98.3 .J66 2007 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
- Description
- 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
- Summary
- A century ago it was fashionable for young women to collect and paint plants as a sort of genteel parlor skill. Some singularly talented women became professiionals, but their contributiosn to both art and botany have remained nearly invisble. The exhibition "Drawing from life" features the work of 14 women botanical artists, from the first decades of the 20th century to the present, focusing on the forgotten art of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's staff artist for 32 years, Maud H. Purdy. Side by side, these ... works reveal how established conventions of botanical art are shaped both by fashions of the times and individual artistic visions. Paintings, scientific illustrations, herbarium specimens, preparatory sketches, and objects of material culture explore the boundaries between art, science and craft and invite us to see plants with fresh eyes."--Back cover
- Alternative Title
- Maud H. Purdy and 90 years of women artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Subjects
- Catalogs
- Women artists > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
- Women illustrators > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
- Botanical illustration > New York (State) > New York > Catalogs
- Botanical illustration > New York (State) > New York > Exhibitions
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden Exhibitions
- Purdy, Maud H., 1873-1965 > Exhibitions
- Genre/Form
- exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Catalogues d'exposition.
- Note
- Catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Sept. 15-Nov. 11, 2007.
- Contents
- Foreword: Ninety years of women artists at BBG / Scot Medbury -- The "best botany illustrator in America" -- Studying irises -- Heritage crabapples -- The nexus of botany and art -- Form and color (The magnolia and tea families ; Pitchers and other carnivores) -- Flowers and material culture.
- ISBN
- 1889538396
- 9781889538396
- OCLC
- ocn173316957
- 173316957
- SCSB-1452216
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library