Francesca Anderson. Click photo for Anderson’s website. Francesca Anderson spent most of her productive life as a botanical illustrator while she was based in Brooklyn. Indeed, she remains a trustee ...

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 ...

From her fifth-floor office in the National Museum of Natural History, Alice Tangerini has a stellar view: to the right, Constitution Avenue runs in front of the Classical Revival facade of Federal ...

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all,” wrote John Keats. The famous words come from his 1820 poem Ode on a Grecian Urn, but they are a fitting description for the practice of botanical art and ...

'Handle with Care!' 'Plants with a Dark Side.' An Art Exhibition in the Library at The Guildhall, Leicester. The Leicestershire Society of Botanical Illustrators was established in the 1980s and ...

This photo provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art shows a watercolor on vellum by Jacob Marrel titled "Four Tulips: Boter man (Butter Man), Joncker (Nobleman), Grote geplumaceerde (The Great ...