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 ...
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 ...
Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...
Using an artist's tools and the skills of a scientist, Tangerini makes “art in the service of science.” Botanical illustrations by Alice Tangerini; photograph by Jennifer J. Hill. Photo illustration ...
An exhibition of colonial botanical art at London's Kew Gardens gives Indian artists their due ...
The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...
Learn how botanical illustrator Alice Tangerini keeps traditional artistic methods alive in the increasingly digital world of science Emma Saaty Smithsonian botanical illustrator, Alice Tangerini, has ...
The world's oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating cultural shifts in its seemingly simple motifs, a new study reveals. The ...