Zenobia
9 1/4 by 12 1/4 inches
WCT264 $25
Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was born into one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most prominent Quaker families in Philadelphia. She began painting flowers at the age of eight, and studied drawing while she attended the Friends Select School, a Quaker institution in Philadelphia. Her family traveled each summer to the Canadian Rockies, where Mary developed into an amateur photographer, naturalist, and mountain climber.
In 1913, she met her husband, Charles Walcott, who was the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a well-known geologist and invertebrate paleontologist. They married in 1914, and the two made research trips to the Canadian Rockies for three or four months each summer. While on these trips with her husband, Mary sketched and painted the subjects for her five-volume book, North American Wild Flowers, published in 1925 by the Smithsonian Institute.
The selection of prints offered here is just a taste from this glorious work of 400 wild flowers of North America. It is perhaps the greatest comprehensive work on the topic ever published. Each print will be accompanied by a copy of the title. These lithographs are printed on a high quality, creamy wove paper, with very strong plate marks which do not show well in the digital images.
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