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Life and times of Mary Vaux Walcott / Marjorie G. Jones.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection QK98.183.W333 J66 2015
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Marjorie G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walcott, Mary Vaux, 1860-1940.
- Walcott, Mary Vaux.
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs--Employees--Biography.
- United States.
- Quaker women--United States--Biography.
- Quaker women.
- Painters--United States--Biography.
- Painters.
- Botanical illustration--19th century.
- Botanical illustration.
- Botanical illustration--20th century.
- Flowers in art.
- Plants in art.
- Watercolor painting, American--19th century.
- Watercolor painting, American.
- Watercolor painting, American--20th century.
- United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- Employees.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Mary Vaux Walcott
- Place of Publication:
- Atglen, Pennsylvania : Schiffer Publishing, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Known as the 'Audubon of Botany', Philadelphia Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and national politics by a late and bold marriage to the secretary of the Smithsonian. Along with an early (1887) transcontinental travelogue, never-before published correspondence with fellow Quaker and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover, and Commissioner Mary Walcott's reports for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, this biography reveals rich intersections of history, religion, politics, women's studies, science, and art during the transformative times in which she lived". Front inside dustjacket flap
- Contents:
- Introduction: Youthful Giantess
- Chapter 1: City of Women
- Chapter 2: Bowling Along
- Chapter 3: This Wild Spirit
- Chapter 4: Thy Affectionate Daughter
- Chapter 5: With Mary
- Chapter 6: Splendid Wife
- Chapter 7: Audubon of Botany
- Chapter 8: My Dear Ladye
- Chapter 9: New Order of Things
- Conclusion: Her Forceful Life.
- Notes:
- Contains bibliographical references (pages 164-172) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Includes reproduction of material from the collection of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia (p. 21).
- Athenaeum copy: Garrison fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780764349720
- 0764349724
- OCLC:
- 909926220
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