The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit, Drawn by a Lady: Early Women Illustrators, celebrates the talent of artists and authors in 19th century Victorian England who were ...

The discovery of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) took the art world by storm with the blockbuster exhibition "Paintings for the Future," featuring her 1906 canvases, at the Solomon R.

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 ...

Botanical art goes back to the Middle Ages, when healers began illustrating their records of medicinal plants with drawings to help identify them correctly. Botanical illustrators accompanied ...

Maj Gen CS Bewli (Retd) Author Martyn Rix, editor of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine at Kew Gardens, UK, and an accomplished chronicler of botanical art, has created an excellent piece of work by ...

Molly Brown has always loved hanging out with plants. Growing up in Connecticut, she spent her days exploring a nearby 40-acre lot she “knew like the back of her hand,” picking flowers and drawing ...

Macoto Murayama can spend months on one of his botanical illustrations, and when he's done, the plant looks like something that blossomed in outer space. First, he dissects his subject with a scalpel, ...

In one wing of the Leatherby Libraries at Chapman University, there are two walls filled with botanical paintings and drawings devoted to a subject not commonly found in other types of art: legumes.

The late Rachel “Bunny” Mellon was half of one of the nation’s most renowned philanthropic art-collecting couples. She and her husband, banking scion Paul Mellon, were major benefactors behind museums ...