A Painted Herbarium The Life and Art of Emily Hitchcock Terry Book

Book Brand new, sealed in the plastic A Painted Herbarium The Life and Art of Emily Hitchcock Terry by Beatrice Scheer Smith Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838-1921) was the scientifically and aesthetically gifted daughter of a highly intellectual and artistic Massachusetts family. An early graduate of Mount Holyoke College, she began her formal study of art at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1865, where her training in drawing and watercolor painting was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement. In 1872 Terry moved to Minnesota, where she was an avid plant collector and painted the flora she saw. Rather than creating a conventional herbarium of pressed specimens, she created instead a "painted herbarium." The beautiful reproductions of her work in this volume give us our first view of Terry's painted herbarium. Tags: biography, floral, herbarium, painter, book, nonfiction, new, art, biology