xx, 241 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations, portraits (some color) 25 cm
Type:
Biography
Biographies
History
Place:
Australia
Date:
2015
Notes:
BOT copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds
Contents:
Chapter 1: The Book -- Chapter 2: Mr Blunt, Professor Stearn and the Copperplates -- Chapter 3: Empire -- Chapter 4: The Marlo Banksia -- Chapter 5: The Leveson Street Gallery -- Chapter 6: The Maud Gibson and the Herbarium -- Chapter 7: The Club -- Chapter 8: Monash -- Chapter 9: The Painting -- Chapter 10: The Project -- Chapter 11: The Artist and the Botanist -- Chapter 12: Field Work -- Chapter 13: Studio -- Chapter 14: Artisans of Britain -- Chapter 15: Volume II -- Chapter 16: Kew -- Chapter 17: Disaster -- Chapter 18: Pressure -- Chapter 19: Recognition -- Chapter 20: Treasure -- Chapter 21: Rosserae -- Epilogue: Survivor -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary:
This is the story of Celia Rosser, the internationally acclaimed botanical illustrator, who ultimately dedicated her life to painting the entire genus of Banksia, the only artist to have done such a thing. Celia's dedication to the task put her at the center of the Monash Banksia Project, underwritten by Monash University (Australia) for 25 years and culminating in the production of an extraordinary three-volume florilegium that became one of the great books published in the 20th century. This is also the story of the emergence of an artist who grew up in difficult circumstances during the Great Depression.--From publisher's description
