Drawing from Life: Maud H Purdy and 90 Years of Women Artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden - Softcover

Drawing from Life: Maud H Purdy and 90 Years of Women Artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden [Ninety years of women artists at BBG / Scot Medbury]

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 64 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm OCLC 173316957 ISBN 9781889538396, 1889538396 ; color photographic stiff paper wrappers ; 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 ; ; 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 ; card laid in ; Artists featured are : Francesca Anderson, Bobbi Angell, Monika de Vries Gohlke, Nan Dedrick, Anne Ophelia Dowden, Wendy Hollender, Louise Mansfield, Diane McElwain, Angela MMirro, Rose Pellicano, Maud H Purdy, Alice Tangerini, Jessica Tcherepaine, Carol Woodin ; FINE. Book. Artikel-Nr. 010378

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