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Shaw Ruddock Gallery
This exhibition highlights two exceptional artist-botanists, watercolorist Kate Furbish (1834–1931) and photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848–1938).
Selected Works
"Showy Lady’s Slipper, Cypripedium Reginae," watercolor by Kate Furbish, American, 1834–1931. Courtesy George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Library
"Iris Versicolor, Blue Flag, Fleur-de-Lis," ca. 1919, platinum print by Edwin Hale Lincoln. Presented by Mrs. William H. Walker, 1920, Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
"Nodding Trillium, Trillium, Cernuum," watercolor by Kate Furbish, American, 1834–1931. Courtesy George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Library
"Trillium Cernuum, Nodding Trillium," ca. 1914, platinum print by Edwin Hale Lincoln. Presented by Mrs. William H. Walker, 1920, Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
"Common Elder, Sambucus Canadensis," watercolor by Kate Furbish, American, 1834–1931. Courtesy George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Library
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This exhibition highlights two exceptional artist-botanists, watercolorist Kate Furbish (1834–1931) and photographer Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848–1938), and addresses important questions about the relationship between the arts and sciences and the interest in botany at the dawn of the American industrial age.