Past Exhibition

Flower Prints, Original Botanical Drawings, and Color-Plate Books

Details

  • Dates

    -

  • Locations

    Ground Floor, Central Gallery

Overview: This special loan exhibition came from the collection of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt of Pittsburgh, with examples of flower pictures from the 15th century to the present day.

Catalog: Botanical Books, Prints, and Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Roy Arthur Hunt, compiled by Jane Quinby, foreword by Elizabeth Mongan. Pittsburgh, 1951.

Other Venues:

  • Grolier Club, New York
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Baltimore Museum of Art
  • Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville

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