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Trees, Tropical Plants & Theatre in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art (October 2018 - March 2019)

12/10/2018

On Monday I went to see the four new botanical art exhibitions at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew Gardens. I'll be reviewing them all individually on this blog in future but today I thought I'd give you a taster of what can be seen - so you start planning a visit!

The four new exhibitions run from 6 October 2018 – 17 March 2019 and have a couple of over-arching themes

Orchids and tropical plants

Orchids and tropical plants are featured in the first two exhibitions

Rankafu: Masterpieces of Japanese Woodblock Prints of Orchids (Galleries 1 and 2) - this is the first exhibition as you walk in through the main entrance
Botanical Theatre: The Art of Pandora Sellars (1936-2017) (Galleries 3 and 4) - This is very likely to be extremely popular with all experienced botanical artists and aspiring students. Her works features a lot of tropical plants and orchids (and cyclamens, lilies and arum) and a lot of foliage.

The Botanical Theatre of watercolour paintings by Pandora Sellars

Mark Frith: A Legacy of Ancient Oaks (Gallery 5) 7 of the 20 oaks on display

Trees

The tree theme is particularly relevant to the Charter of the Forest in its 800th anniversary year.

Mark Frith: A Legacy of Ancient Oaks (Gallery 5) - in the large square central gallery
Trees: Delight in the Detail (Gallery 6) - the first exhibition you encounter when approaching from the Marianne North Gallery.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This is one of the best combination of exhibitions that I've seen here. There's a lot of excellent quality art to look at - I found it quite overwhelming - and it's really difficult to take it all in on one visit. So think very seriously about:

planning enough time for your visit
or maybe even planning more than one visit!

I know one artist who has already visited twice on one day and wants to go again!

PS You will need a magnifier or a loupe to properly appreciate some of the paintings in these exhibitions. If you forget yours, you can borrow one from reception.

Rankafu: Masterpieces of Japanese Woodblock Prints of Orchids

View of the exhibition of Rankafu wood block prints of orchids

These impressive and very beautiful woodblock prints of orchids are based on the watercolours of Zuigetsu Ikeda. They were first published in 1946.

Rankafu means as ‘Orchid Flower Album’. These prints are on loan from the Collection of Stephen Kirby and this is first major exhibition of the Rankafu woodblock colour prints outside of Japan.

Woodblock printing of this quality is technically demanding and the exhibition includes a display explaining how they are produced.

Botanical Theatre: The Art of Pandora Sellars

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - This is an exhibition NOT TO BE MISSED.
It's unlikely you'll ever see its like again.

Many experienced botanical artists will need no introduction to the late Pandora Sellars. She has been described by Shirley Sherwood as “One of the most important botanical artists of all time[1]” and “the best leaf painter ever”. Others would characterise her as being one of the best botanical artists when it comes to tackling a complex composition which shows off the botanical features of a plant to best effect.

However very few will have ever seen more than a few examples of her artwork in person.

This exhibition is unique and a wonderful opportunity to

view a retrospective of c. 50 artworks and items produced from her art - just a small percentage of the artwork she produced over a period of nearly 40 years.
note how her artwork developed over the years - between 1972 and 2007
see the scope of her work - from botanical illustration commissions for Kew and other publishers to botanical artworks produced for her own pleasure.

Those who do not know about Pandora Sellars can read all about her and her botanical artwork in About Pandora Sellars (1936-2017) my dedicated page on this website.

The artwork is on loan from:

Kew Collection (17 works)
Shirley Sherwood Collection (8 works)
RHS Lindley Library (1 work)
Cyclamen Society (7 works)
Postal Museum (5 works)
Private Collections (12 works - plus her painting materials
Plus a selection of books containing botanical illustrations by Pandora Sellars

Mark Frith: A Legacy of Oaks

Six of the Veteran Oaks drawn by Mark Frith - in Gallery 5

This is an exhibition of a series of 20 highly intricate, large-scale graphite drawings of Britain’s most characterful veteran oaks, many of which are more than 1,000 years. The trees are shown in winter - devoid of all leaves and new growth.

They were drawn by Mark Frith who studied Fine Art at Bristol before becoming a BAFTA award-winning filmmaker before starting to draw his first tree in 2011.

The series were commissioned by publisher, poet, and philanthropist, Felix Dennis. After he died, ten trees were gifted to the Kew Collection and ten are now owned by the Heart of England Forest - founded by Felix Dennis.

Trees: Delight in the Detail

View of "Palms" - one small section of "Trees: Delight in Detail"

This exhibition leans very much towards looking at the details of trees rather than the tree as a whole - and different approaches used to paint the details of trees.

The artwork represents trees from all over the world - from temperate areas and the tropics - and the detail of their leaves, cones, flowers, fruits, seeds and nuts.

Sizes vary enormously according to real life but also due to enlargement employed to show the detail of a particular aspect.

The artwork comes from the Shirley Sherwood Collection - collected from artists from all over the world. Artists include:

UK: Jenny Brasier, Brigid Edwards, Annie Farrer (2 works), Flappy Lane Fox, Katherine Manisco, Rory McEwen (2 works), Margaret Mee (2 works), Barbara Oozerally, Jess Shepherd, Julie Small (2 works)
Australia: Jenny Phillips
Austria: Jakob Demus
Brazil: Maria Alice de Rezende, Alvaro Nunes (7 works)
Germany: Regine Hagedorn,
India: Arundhati Vartak
Japan: Mariko Ikeda, Mieko Ishikawa, Kimuyo Maruyama (2 works), Michiko Toyota
Philippines: Emmanuel Cordova
Russia: Olga Makrushenko
South Africa: Gill Condy, Ann Schweizer, Vicki Thomas
Thailand: Phansakdi Chakkaphak
USA: Monika de Vries Gohlke; Anne Ophelia Dowden, Ingrid Finnan, Hillary Parker,

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List of artists exhibited in "Down Under II: Works from the Shirley Sherwood Collection"

27/8/2018

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View of Down Under II in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery

This post puts on record all those artists who have artwork in Down Under II: Works from the Shirley Sherwood Collection at the The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art in Kew Gardens.

It also provides views of artwork in the exhibition for those who have been unable to attend - or need an incentive to visit before it ends on Sunday 16th September 2018!

The exhibition contains a mix of works by Australian and New Zealand artists based combined with studies of some remarkable Australasian native plants, created by artists from other parts of the world. All were collected since 1990.

All the artwork comes from the Shirley Sherwood Botanical Art Collection.

Some of the artists included in the exhibition Susannah Blaxill, Paul Jones, Celia Rosser and Margaret Stones were well established botanical artists when Dr Sherwood started collecting.

However, her first exhibition of botanical art in Sydney in 1998 triggered an interest in botanical art which led to

the first Down Under II exhibition ten years ago at Kew and
the formation of the Florilegium Group at the Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney and the current major exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery - see "The Florilegium: The Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney" exhibition at Kew Gardens

The Banksia Corner in the Down Underr II exhibition

The list of artists and the 43 artworks included in the exhibition works as follows:

The list is alphabetical based on (1) the country they come from and (2) the surname of the artist.
A link to their website (if they have one) is embedded in their name. Alternatively another page has been linked to if this tells you about an artist who doesn't have a website.
an asterisk * after their name indicates they are included in my current summary of artists for the country they live in - where you can read more about them. If the artist is deceased they will be listed in 20th century Botanical Artists in the history section. Those without an asterisk will be added soon!
The name is followed by basic bio data which indicates where they were born and live
This is then followed by the title of the work. The common vernacular name is very often followed by the correct latin name in italics, (for more about naming plants see Plant Names and Botanical Latin in the Botany section on this website)
Media: All paintings are watercolour on paper unless otherwise stated.
Artwork which has been published in one of Dr Sherwood's books includes the title of the book and page number (in green) after the title
Those who have more than one artwork in the exhibition have the titles of the works bullet pointed below their names.

Some of the plants have interesting stories or names and these are also highlighted

Paintings by Noboru Isogai. Betty Hinton, Bronwyn Van de Graaff and Gill Condy

Names of the Artists / Titles of the Artwork

Australia

Beverly Allen* GM (RHS 2007, NYBG 2010) - b. 1945 in Sydney, Australia.

Strelitzia nicolai 2003 Watercolour on paper

Laurie Andrews born Melbourne, Australia 1936

Maidenhair Fern: Adiantum aethiopicum (2001) Watercolour on paper - the plant can be found over a wide area including Australia
Strap Water Fern: Blechnum patersonii (2001) Watercolour on paper - an Australian native

Susannah Blaxill * b. 1954 in Armidale, New South Wales.This artist is featured in Contemporary Botanical Artists

Seaweed: Laminaria sp. (2002) Watercolour on paper - Kelp found on a Sydney beach
Agapanthus africanus (2012) Watercolour on vellum - Her first painting on vellum.

I've spend a long time with a magnifier looking at her brushstrokes in the agapanthus. It's almost unbelievable that this is her FIRST painting on vellum. I seem to recall she had the additional stress of painting on a sheet of vellum from the Hunt which had belonged to Rory McEwen

Agapanthus africanus and Laminaria by Susannah Blaxill

Betty Hinton born Gin Gin, Queensland, Australia 1935. This artist is featured in A Passion for Plants

Idiot Fruit: Idiospermum australiense 2000 Watercolour on paper - also known as Also known as the 'Green Dinosaur' A Passion for Plants page 107

This very ancient and primitive plant has huge and heavy seeds. It's endemic in the Daintree National Park, NE Queensland, Australia. It was first discovered in the nineteenth century and then "lost" again as land was cleared. The fruit is classed as very poisonous by the Aborigines. If eaten by cattle they go mad. The tree is 15 metres tall and the flowers can only be retrieved by somebody climbing the tree to the top to cut off flowering branches - which is what happened in relation to this painting.

Annie Hughes * GM (RHS: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017) born Australia 1948

Camellia japonica ‘Elegance champagne’ 2011/2012 Watercolour on paper - The camellia flower has been dramatically enlarged

Paul Jones * OBE (1921 - 1997) Australia. This artist is featured in Contemporary Botanical Artists and A Passion for Plants

Camellia ‘Paul Jones Supreme’ 1977 - Acrylic on paper Contemporary Botanical Artists page 105
Sunflower: Helianthus annuus Acrylic on paper A New Flowering page 155
Magnolia grandiflora Acrylic on paper A New Flowering page 101; A Passion for Plants page 131

Sydney became the centre of Australian camellia breeding led by Prof E. G. Waterhouse at Eryldene House in the 1970s. Paul Jones had this camellia named after him in 1958 in recognition of his iconic camellia portraits. There are 5 camellia studies in the 16 paintings in the Shirley Sherwood Collection, mostly acquired from the artist in Sydney before 1997. He used a graded background for some paintings after a visit to Japan

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Botanical art at Jonathan Cooper: 30 years exhibition - opens 12 July 2018

5/7/2018

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If you're coming up to London for the RHS Botanical Art Show, why not grab a taxi or catch a bus to Chelsea - and see some more incredible artwork!

The Jonathan Cooper 30 Years Exhibition opens a week today (12 - 21 July 2018) at 'Jonathan Cooper', his Park Walk Gallery in Chelsea to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the gallery - established in 1988.

You can review the catalogue for the exhibition online.

Fiona Strickland, Celebration Papaver, Watercolour on Kelmscott vellum, 42.2 x 42.5cm

Over 30 years, Jonathan Cooper has played an important role in developing the careers of many of today’s figurative greats. His passion is to discover and promote artists demonstrating a new viewpoint within the genres of botanical, wildlife, landscape and still life.

The gallery has also been host to some major exhibitions, including; Work from botanical artists in the collection of Dr Shirley Sherwood in 2015, an exhibition in conjunction with Dr Shirley Sherwood OBE, which drew together works by contemporary botanical artists held in Dr Sherwood’s comprehensive botanical collection, the largest in the world.

This group exhibition aims to celebrate the very best of contemporary figurative painting, drawing and sculpture through the artwork of every genre by his 'gallery artists' including leading botanical artists and still life painters who paint flowers (see below)

This post contains my 72dpi web-level versions of the high resolution images of their artwork sent to me. You will only get a small insight into how impressive these works are - and why it is so much better to see them in person!

Botanical Art

The four botanical artists (in alphabetical order) are:

Beverley Allen
Kate Nessler
Rosie Sanders
Fiona Strickland

Beverly Allen, White batflower - ‘Tacca integrifolia’, Watercolour, 62cm x 57cm

Rosie Sanders 'It was the time of roses' watercolour on Arches 640gsm paper, 102 x 124cm

Still Life - with flowers

Two of the still life artists paint flowers are:

Ben Henriques
Susan Angharad Williams - who he discovered after I introduced her to him - after she won the ING Discerning Eye Prize in 2007! ;)

Ben Henriques, Potted Flower, oil on canvas, 39.4 x 52.1cm

Susan Angharad Williams, Poppies, (detail), oil on linen, 63 x 56cm

Information about the Gallery

Address: Jonathan Cooper Gallery, 20 Park Walk, Chelsea, London, SW10 0AQ
Gallery Opening Times: Mon – Fri (10 – 6.30pm); Sat (11 – 4pm) Closed Bank Holidays
Free Admission
Website: jonathancooper.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7351 0410
Social #jonathancooper30years
Instagram: @jonathancoopergallery
Twitter: @JCooperGallery
Facebook: @jonathancooperparkwalkgallery
The gallery is a member of SLAD (The Society of London Art Dealers), BADA (The British Antique Dealers Association) and LAPADA (The Association of Art & Antique Dealers), and regularly exhibits at international art fairs including Masterpiece, London.

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'Authenticating a Rory McEwen Painting' by Katherine Tyrrell

4/7/2018

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Volume 16 - June 2018 (2MB pdf) of the Occasional Papers published by the RHS Lindley Library is all about Botanical Art. The papers are all written as a result of original research and will interest many botanical artists and botanical art collectors and fans who have a particular interest in botanical art history.

The contents of this Volume are detailed below - and I've been sitting on the story behind my Paper for well over a year!

Volume 16 focuses on Botanical Art and garden paintings and features papers about

famous botanical artists from the past - Barbara Regina Dietzch (1706–1783) and Rory McEwen
famous botanical art collections (The Reeeve Collection)
a painter of gardens (Edith Helena Adie)
and a paper written by me titled 'Authenticating a Rory McEwen Painting'.

If you want to know more about the contents of the article, I recommend that you read the article for yourself by clicking the link above and downloading Volume 16. It will provide all the answers as to how I came to be asked about a painting reputed to be by Rory McEwen, via an authentication process which assumed nothing and involved a few months of chasing facts and a very illusive paper trail. I hasten to add there was a lot more to the story than is summarised in this Paper. Skills in audit and inspection acquired during the course of professional career also proved very useful when it came to authenticating a painting by Rory McEwen that nobody knew existed!

While neither the owner nor the purchaser of the painting, I have to say it was very exciting to play both detective and a ‘midwife’ intermediary role in the ‘birth’ of a new McEwen painting.
Katherine Tyrrell

The painting in question is now owned by the Heritage Art Collection (aka 'Lindley Collection') of the Royal Horticultural Society and is kept in the collection at the Lindley Library at Vincent Square.

Below is my photo of it the day it arrived at the Lindley Library and into the care of Charlotte Brooks who is the RHS Art Curator and Sarah McDonald, the Heritage Collections Manager who were handling the acquisition of the painting by the RHS. I'd like to thank both these ladies for their past contributions to the story behind my Paper. Also thanks to Claire Clough, the Rare Books Librarian, who organises the publication of the Occasional Papers for her guidance and editing of my Paper for publication.

Fritillaria gibbosa (1976) by Rory McEwen at the RHS Lindley Library.

Charlotte Brooks is also the author and co-author of three other Papers in Volume 16 of the Lindley Library Occasional Papers. Her Papers, which I highly recommend, also contain some wonderful images of other artworks in the Lindley Collection.

Some of you may come across Charlotte next week at the Botanical Art Seminar on the 12th July at the RHS Botanical Art Show.

I'd also like to extend my appreciation and thanks to Rory McEwen's daughter Samantha McEwen, who was incredibly helpful to the process of identifying the origins of the painting. After the acquisition, she also subsequently confirmed a very curious but little known fact that Rory McEwen is a direct descendent of John Lindley. (see below). This didn't make it into my Paper but is recorded on my About Rory McEwen page on this website and is also worth recording here.

It feels very appropriate that a painting by Rory McEwen is now part of the Lindley Collection - and I'm very appreciative of the opportunity I was given to be part of that process.

Biographical Footnote

Rory McEwen's lineage indicates he is descended from John Lindley, the botanist whose name is memorialised in the RHS Lindley Hall and the RHS Lindley Library. Links in the names below are to The Peerage online site.

John Lindley FRS (1799-1865), Professor of Botany at University College London, London, England (Wikipedia)
Nathaniel Lindley, The Rt Hon. The Lord Lindley PC KC SL (1828-1921), the Master of the Rolls, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (Wikipedia)
The Honourable Sir Francis Oswald Lindley GCMG CB CBE, (1872-1950), Diplomat
Bridget McEwen, nee Lindley (d.1971)
Roderick (Rory) McEwen (1932-1982), Artist

Lindley Library Occasional Papers

The collections of the RHS Libraries are a unique testament to gardening. These publications seek to portray the importance of the collections and to record significant findings that derive from them

The Lindley Library Occasional Papers are published on an Annual Basis.

You can read past copies via the digital versions published as PDF files via the links on the Lindley Library Online page on the RHS website.
Details of how to purchase copies are also available on that page.

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UPDATE - British artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection

23/11/2017

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I've made a major UPDATE to my blog post British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection - a review and a timeline.

This post is about the "British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection" exhibition at The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens

Dr Shirley Sherwood speaking at the Private View for the opening of 'British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection' exhibition at Kew Gardens

When I wrote my catalogue-like blog post - , Shirley Sherwood was out of the country. When she returned to the UK, she invited me to visit her because she had a number of comments she wanted to make on the content. It was a pleasure to visit Shirley twice to review this rather long blog post and clarify matters where I'd guessed and listen to stories about an artist or how a painting was bought.

We're both very keen on:

creating a record of exhibitions relating to the Collection (you can see my archive of the exhibitions to date in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery on this webste)
making sure that all information is accurate (some of my comments in the original post were informed guesses).

IMPORTANTLY - and for the very first time - this blog post now lists the number of paintings by each artist in the collection. I've also updated it with the comments she asked me to include and I've also added in some additional images.

I was absolutely amazed - as I am sure you will be - by how many paintings by leading British botanical artists she now owns!

My next job is another catalogue-like blog post about the current exhibition Abundance: Seeds, Pods and Autumn Fruits from the Shirley Sherwood Collection - complete with pics of some of the paintings and some of the artists. I've had some help from Shirley with this one too! :)

Speech by the Director of Kew Gardens at the Private View, 27 March 2017

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British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection - a review and a timeline

24/8/2017

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The "British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection" exhibition at The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens finishes on 17th September 2017. If you haven't been to see it yet I strongly recommend you do so as it includes some iconic work by British Botanical Artists.

[NOTE: Since writing this post I've had the opportunity to review it with Shirley Sherwood personally and it has now been

UPDATED for her comments
PLUS the number of artworks by each artist in the collection is now indicated after their name (the first time they are mentioned) if there is more than one]

L to R: 3 paintings by Rory McEwen; 6 paintings by Coral Guest and 3 paintings by Pandora Sellars

I've now seen the exhibition four times and it might seem a bit odd to be doing a review so late in the day, except I've already written about it in:

British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection - an exhibition at Kew
British Botanical Artists - photographed with their paintings - from the evening of the Private View back in March; and
List of artists exhibited in 'British Artists in Shirley Sherwood Collection' - this includes all the artists plus links to their websites and a note of their artwork in the exhibition

Since I wrote these, the Gallery has also included British Artists in the Shirley Sherwood Collection.pdf (PDF)on the website - which I urge everybody to download as this is the ONLY formal record of this exhibition (there is no catalogue). It also includes thumbnails of all the paintings in the exhibition.

It has not been possible to hang more than a small proportion of ‘my’ British artists here as I now have 330 works by 86 painters and so I have had to be fiercely selective.

On my last visit I took my time and went round very slowly, looking at the artwork closely. I found that I began to detect themes within the collection which I had missed earlier.

In a way it's a story of a collection, a collector and the development of botanical art in the UK over more than a quarter of a century of collecting.

Hence this post is going to be something of a timeline or retrospective of the collection which started in 1990. It's by no means the story of the whole collection of British artists as this now includes 330 works by 86 painters.

There are three botanical artists in the exhibition who have an artwork on display which was acquired or commissioned in every decade to date. They are Brigid Edwards, Coral Guest and Rory McEwen - who are all members of the small group of what Dr Sherwood refers to as her 'core artists'.

This post is interspersed with comments from Dr Sherwood and listings of the artists whose work is featured in each decade.

In relation to dates:

the date before the name is the date it was acquired by Dr Sherwood.
The date after the name is the date it was completed.

In relation to the paintings:

UPDATE: the number of paintings in bold after the name is the total number held in the collection [Note this is an update since this post was first published]
The title of a painting in the exhibition is listed in the decade to which it relates (hence an artist may be listed in more than one decade)
You can also read more about leading British Botanical Artists in my page dedicated to them on this website.

Where an artist is exhibiting elsewhere in the UK currently or in near future and/or teaching I'm also sharing the information in this post.

All quotations are by Shirley Sherwood (from the pdf record of the exhibition) unless otherwise indicated.

WARNING - THIS IS A VERY LONG POST. I suggest you find a comfy place to sit now and if you like finding out about botanical art and artists then you may be some time reading it!

The First Decade 1990-1999

Five paintings by Pandora Sellars - including the very first painting in the collection on the right

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Oak Spring Garden Foundation on Google Arts & Culture

30/7/2017

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The Oak Spring Garden Foundation has made some of its collection available online via a collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. This will be of great interest to those (like me) who are enthusiastic about the history of botanical art.

The Foundation was created by Bunny Mellon who was one of the richest women in the world and who died in 2014 age 103. (Learn more about Bunny Mellon)

The Foundation's collection comprises a collection of over 16,000 objects, including rare books, manuscripts, and works of art dating back to the 14th century
these mainly relate to horticulture, landscape design, botany, natural history and voyages of exploration
It's been described as one of the most compelling horticultural repositories in the nation
The foundation is open to researchers by appointment only.

Oak Spring Farm was the former home of the Mellons and comprised a 4,000-acre estate, in Upperville, Virginia. The farm has now been sold along with other items from her estate

However, her prized collection of books, manuscripts and art on plants, gardens, and landscapes is now housed in The Oak Spring Garden Library within a 263-acre estate which helps to perpetuate her memory.

Oak Spring Garden Foundation on Google Arts & Culture

OSGF is dedicated to inspiring and facilitating scholarship and public dialogue on the history and future of plants, including the culture of gardens and landscapes and the importance of plants for human well-being.

A small sample of the images now available to view on Oak Spring Garden Foundation on Google Arts

The display on the Oak Spring Garden Foundation Page on Google Arts & Culture includes:

166 items - of which 127 items relate to plants (with a lot of original watercolours from A Curious Herbal by Elizabeth Blackwell)
2 exhibits - widescreen videos about women botanical artists and related items in the collection (Note: The video while impressive on the website is much, much better on Google Arts & Culture and my 27" screen - I very much recommend you take a look!)

The first video Women Botanical Artists includes:

Maria Sibylla Merian 1647-1717
Johanna Helena Herolt 1668-1721 (Merian's daughter)
Barbara Regina Dietzsch (1706-1783)
Elizabeth Blachrie Blackwell (1707-1758)
Lydia Byam (1722-unknown) - a British botanical watercolourist living on Antigua
Lise Cloquet (1788-1860) a French botanical painter influenced by Redoute
Lady Anna Brassey nee Allnutt (1838-1887)

Women Artists Part 2 covers:

Anna Maria Hussey (1805-1853) aka Mrs Thomas Jonathan Hussey - a British mycologist, who focused on researching and painting fungi
Henrietta Maria Moriarty (unknown - early 19th century) - who produced Henrietta Moriarty’s Viridarium Fifty Plates of Green-house Plants, Drawn and Coloured from Nature. with Concise Descriptions, and Rules for their Culture (1806)
Sarah Matilda Parry (fl. 1818-1850) illustrated Fruits from the Garden of Summer Hill
Dorothea Eliza Smith (1804-1864) - painted in Peru and illustrated the Fruits of Lima
Dame Anne Hamilton (unknown) - an obvious admirer of Ehret
Lady Frances Howard (unknown)
Elizabeth and Margaret Wharton (unknown)

Research at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation

Beginning in January 2018 we are able to offer free overnight accommodation on the Oak Spring estate for bona fide scholars wishing to study material in the Oak Spring Garden Library collections. Since we are only able to accommodate a limited number of scholars at any given time, we will probably need to prioritize our visitors based on timing and topics.
Work with the Oak Spring Garden's Collection

If you'd like to visit, you can find the Oak Spring Garden Foundation at 1776 Loughborough Lane, Upperville, VA 20184, USA.

You need to send a brief proposal

outlining your interest in visiting the Oak Spring Garden Library,
the goal of your work as it relates to plants, gardens and landscapes
complete the short online form

You can also find the form and other ways of engaging with OSGF at www.OSGF.org/opportunities.

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