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Drawing From Life
Maud H. Purdy and 90 Years of Women Artists at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Saturday, September 15–Sunday, November 11, 2007
Drawing From Life Art Workshops
Children 8–12 years old
Saturday, September 15
Sunday, October 7
Adults over 16 years old
Sunday, September 23
Saturday, October 27
Drawing From Life features the work of 14 women artists who have painted plants at BBG, from the first decades of the 20th century to the present. The work of Maud H. Purdy—BBG's staff artist for 32 years—is presented side by side with other artists' paintings to reveal how artistic vision and fashions of the time shape work that conforms to centuries-old conventions of botanical art. Paintings, scientific illustrations, herbarium specimens, preparatory sketches, and objects of material culture explore the boundaries between art, science, and craft and invite us to see plants with fresh eyes.
Opening Weekend: September 15 and 16, 2007
Tours of the exhibit with curator Patricia Jonas and many of the participating artists will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, in the Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery.
Artists:
Francesca Anderson, Bobbi Angell, Monika de Vries Gohlke, Nan Dedrick, Anne Ophelia Dowden, Wendy Hollender, Louise Mansfield, Dianne McElwain, Angela Mirro, Rose Pellicano, Maud H. Purdy, Alice Tangerini, Jessica Tcherepnine, Carol Woodin
Malus × atrosanguinea | view
Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' | view
Stewartia pteropetiolata var. koreana | view
Sarracenia flava var. cuprea 'Copper Top' | view
Magnolia grandiflora | view
Iris ensata 'Subaru' | view
Major support for this exhibition is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
