In conjunction with the exhibition "Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection," the Hunt Institute will hold its annual Open House on 27 and 28 June 2010. We will have a guided gallery tour of the exhibition, two curators' talks and displays, a talk about and tour of the reading room and a Q&A with our curators and graphics manager.
See our Web site (huntbot.andrew.cmu.edu/HIBD/Services/OpenHouse.shtml) for more information.
A History of Botanical Art Lecture
Acclaimed botanical artist
3-6-1929 - 29-10-2009
Elizabeth Conabere, a famous Australian botanical artist has died at her home in Mansfield at the age of 80.
She was best known for her illustrations in Wildflowers of South-Eastern Australia and also her book An Australian Countrywoman's Diary which she wrote and illustrated. She also illustrated a number of stamps for Australia Post including this one depicting Eucalyptus ficifolia issued on November 17, 1982.
Further details in this article in the Melbourne Age.
Australian National Botanic Gardens
Monday 16 November - 30 January
See the remarkable world of plants through the eyes of seven artists.
This exciting exhibition of 20 limited edition etchings and 6
photographs explores the unique characteristics of species that survive
and prosper through the climatic extremes of monsoonal rains, dry
weather and wild fires in Northern Australia.
Cultural stories, plant use and scientific knowledge are distilled
together in an acutely observed exploration of flora in the Top End.
Free, Visitor Centre Gallery
More information at the ANBG website
From 22 August 2009 to 3 January 2010
Art meets science in an exhibition of botanical paintings from the
Shirley Sherwood Collection, arranged in the latest evolutionary
sequence, determined by recent DNA analysis.
The Gallery is free and entry is included with a ticket to the Gardens.
9.30am-5pm until end October 2009
9.30am-5.30pm from end October 2009 until March 2010
I've finally got around to creating the botanical art class listing on the new site. I hope you find it useful. To make it as comprehensive as possible I would encourage anyone who runs classes to add their details to this list.
This watercolor painting shows the lifecycle of the Catalpa Moth on the Catalpa Tree. The larva can be so prolific that it can eat all the foliage from the tree. Fisherman use the larva as bait in Big-Mouth Bass fishing.
Property of the Albany State Museum
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's Marianne North Gallery re-opened on Sunday 11 October as part of the gardens' 250th anniversary year.
For the Gallery to remain open to the public, the roof needed replacing and the building weather proofing. The Gallery also required state of the art environmental controls to maintain the paintings in the best possible condition for the future.
You can see an on line gallery of over 800 paintings on the Kew website.
The McCune Collection is a rare book and art collection and has begun to place its collection of Henry Evans (1918-1990) online. Henry Evans began making his botanical prints in 1958 and during his career he drew more than 1400 subjects. He has had more that 250 one-man shows and his works are in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Albertina in Vienna, the Clark Library at UCLA, the Gleeson Library, and the Bancroft Library, just to mention a few.
The McCune Collections has put many of these works online - so far it has started with his 1950 portfolio "First Duet" and has progressed to 1966 "Volume 17" of botanical lithographs. This is a continuing process and addition Henry Evans portfolios will be added in the coming months.
It is located at the John F Kennedy Library, 505 Santa Clara St, Vallejo, CA 94590. and also the website is located here: http://www.mccunecollection.org/henry_evans.html
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation presents the exhibition "Botanicals: Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection" from 23 October 2009 to 29 January 2010.
The exhibition represents one of the finest private collections of contemporary botanical art in America. These 54 artworks are expressions of the purely aesthetic forms found in nature and a reminder that we are stewards of our natural resources for future generations.
Hours: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-4 p.m. (except 26-29 November and 18 December 2009-3 January 2010). We will also open on Saturday, 31 October, 1-5 p.m., during Carnegie Mellon's homecoming.
