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PublisherAmherst College, Mead Art Museum

ISBN-100914337238

ISBN-139780914337232

eBay Product ID (ePID)99642407

Product Key Features

Number of Pages114 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameOrra White Hitchcock : an Amherst Woman of Art and Science

SubjectIndividual Artists / General, General, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, American / General, Graphic Arts / Illustration

Publication Year2011

TypeTextbook

AuthorDaria D'arienzo, Mead Art Museum

Subject AreaDesign, Art, Biography & Autobiography

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight15.2 Oz

Item Length10.5 in

Item Width8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2010-043102

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal741.6092 B

Table Of ContentDirector's Acknowledgments - Elizabeth E. Barker Authors' Acknowledgments A Note to the Reader Chronology Orra White Hitchcock's Life and Work A Scientific Illustrator Looks Back at Orra White Hitchcock - Elizabeth Farnsworth The Hitchcocks' Classroom Charts - Tekla A. Harms Exhibited Works Bibliography Contributors to the Catalogue Lenders to the Exhibition

SynopsisOrra White Hitchcock brings to light the little-known art of one of the Connecticut River Valley's earliest female artists and a leading scientific illustrator of her generation, from her lyrical images of flora, to her massive classroom wall charts and her picturesque lithographs of the Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers. Robert L. Herbert and Daria D'Arienzo illuminate Hitchcock's life and art and reveal new discoveries and previously unknown drawings. Additionally, Elizabeth Farnsworth contributes an analysis of Hitchcock's watercolors of flowers and grasses from the vantage point of her own work as a botanical illustrator, while geologist Tekla Harms describes how the artist's large classroom drawings supplemented observable phenomena with representations of unseen geological structures crucial to geologic education. This generously illustrated catalogue, produced in conjunction with an exhibition at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum, celebrates the memorable art of a gifted American woman. Catalog complements the exhibit at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts between January 28-May 29, 2011, This new book explores the life and work of the most prolific female scientific illustrator in America in the first half of the nineteenth century, Orra White Hitchcock brings to light the little-known art of one of the Connecticut River Valley's earliest female artists and a leading scientific illustrator of her generation, from her lyrical images of flora, to her massive classroom wall charts and her picturesque lithographs of the Connecticut and Deerfield Rivers. Robert L. Herbert and Daria D'Arienzo illuminate Hitchcock's life and art and reveal new discoveries and previously unknown drawings. Additionally, Elizabeth Farnsworth contributes an analysis of Hitchcock's watercolors of flowers and grasses from the vantage point of her own work as a botanical illustrator, while geologist Tekla Harms describes how the artist's large classroom drawings supplemented observable phenomena with representations of unseen geological structures crucial to geologic education. This generously illustrated catalogue, produced in conjunction with an exhibition at Amherst College's Mead Art Museum, celebrates the memorable art of a gifted American woman.Catalog complements the exhibit at the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts between January 28-May 29, 2011

LC Classification NumberQH46.5.H47 2011