Francesca Anderson. Click photo for Anderson’s website. Francesca Anderson spent most of her productive life as a botanical illustrator while she was based in Brooklyn. Indeed, she remains a trustee ...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Ignoring stunning architecture and a gorgeous autumn sky, Marilyn Garber meandered along a campus sidewalk. Her head was down, her eyes searched the ground. She marveled at fallen ...
Think of botanical illustrators, and you might envision a world of medieval herbalists, tulip or orchid collectors, or affluent young women of the 17th and 18th centuries making detailed drawings and ...
From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all,” wrote John Keats. The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and ...
'Handle with Care!' 'Plants with a Dark Side.' An Art Exhibition in the Library at The Guildhall, Leicester. The Leicestershire Society of Botanical Illustrators was established in the 1980s and ...