Treasures of Botanical Art

Icons from the Shirley Sherwood and Kew Collections

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Treasures of Botanical Artreveals the history,science and beauty ofbotanical painting, andcelebrates the inauguralexhibition of the ShirleySherwood Gallery ofBotanical Art at Kew.Extensively illustrated andelegantly designed, itfeatures some 200paintings and drawings from both the Kew andShirley Sherwood collections which reflect therichness of botanical art as a whole. The bookprovides an overview of the most significant artistsfrom the 1600s through to the present day anddemonstrates the fundamental importance of art to science.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-01-01
Mått255 x 292 x undefined mm
Vikt29 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagRoyal Botanic Gardens
ISBN9781842463680

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Martyn Rix has worked for the Royal Horticultural Society and has co-authored many books on horticulture with Roger Phillips. He is editor of 'Curtis's Botanical Magazine' published by Kew, the longest continuously running botanical periodical in the world, founded in 1787, which places special emphasis on botanical illustration. Martyn has travelled widely around the world collecting and photographing plants, and designing and planting gardens. In 2002 he was awarded the Gold Veitch Memorial Media for services to Horticulture.Dr Shirley Sherwood travels extensively and has been collecting contemporary botanical drawings since 1990. Her comprehensive collection includes work by artists living in thirty different countries and documents the emergence of a new wave of botanical painters and the renaissance of their art form and is arguably the most important private collection of twentieth century botanical art in the world.