Contemporary botanical artists : the Shirley Sherwood Collection / Shirley Sherwood; edited by Victoria Matthews

Sherwood, Shirley

Verlag: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1996

Beschreibung

Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 240 pages; Physical description. : 240 p. (incl. 115 p. Of col. Plates) and 1 p. Of col. Plates : col. Ill. ; 29 cm. Notes: Celebrating the renaissance of botanical art with work collected during the last five years from over a hundred painters, living in seventeen different countries around the world. References: pp.238-240. Contents: Introduction by Dr. Brinsley Burbidge. Foreword by Professor Sir Ghillean Prance and James J. White. Summary: Celebrating the renaissance of botanical art work collected during the last fiveyears from over a hundred painters living in sixteen different countries. Biography: Shirley Sherwood read botany at Oxford University and gained a D. Phil while working in the area of drug research. She is a judge on the Botanical Painting Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, Kew, and an honorary trustee of the new American Society for Botanical Artists. Subject: Sherwood, Shirley - Art collections - Exhibitions. Shirley Sherwood Collection Biography. Art museums. Botany. Botanical illustration - Exhibitions. Botanical illustration - 20th century. Plants in art. Botanical artists - Biography. Botanical illustrations. Paintings - Special subjects - Plants Plants and flowers - Depictions - 1950-1999 - Exhibitions. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 209461

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Contemporary botanical artists : the Shirley...

Verlag: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Erscheinungsdatum: 1996

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: First Edition.